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noun. A person who is licensed to practice medicine and has trained at a school of medicine, chiropractic, optometry, podiatry, dentistry, or veterinary medicine.

noun. A practitioner of alternative medicine or folk medicine who does not have traditional medical credentials.

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noun. A person who has earned the highest academic degree, usually a PhD, awarded by a college or university in a specified discipline.

noun. A person awarded an honorary degree by a college or university.

noun. Used as a title and form of address for a person holding the degree of doctor.

noun. An eminent theologian.

noun. A rig or device contrived for remedying an emergency situation or for doing a special task.

intransitive verb. To give medical treatment to.

intransitive verb. To repair, especially in a makeshift manner; rig.

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intransitive verb. To falsify or change in such a way as to make favorable to oneself.

intransitive verb. To add ingredients so as to improve or conceal the taste, appearance, or quality of.

intransitive verb. To alter or modify for a specific end.

intransitive verb. To deface or apply a substance to (the ball) in violation of the rules in order to throw a pitch with extraordinary movement.

intransitive verb. To practice medicine.

noun. A teacher; an instructor; a learned man; one skilled in a learned profession.

noun. In a university, one who has passed all the degrees of a faculty, and is thereby empowered to teach the subjects included in the faculty; a person who has received the highest degree in a faculty: as, a doctor in divinity.

noun. Specifically A person duly licensed to practise medicine; a physician; one whose occupation is to cure diseases.

noun. A minor part of certain pieces of machinery employed in regulating the feed or in removing surplus material; specifically, the roller in a power printing-press which serves as a conductor of ink to the distributing rollers (see crab-roller, drop-roller): as, a color-doctor; a cleaning-doctor; a lint-doctor, etc.

noun. An auxiliary steam-engine; a donkey-engine.

noun. In wine-making: A liquor used to mix with inferior wine to make it more palatable, or to give it a resemblance to a better wine.

noun. A liquor used to darken the color of wine, as boiled must mixed with pale sherry to produce brown sherry. See shcrry, mosto, and must.

noun. A translation of a local name in North Africa of the bird Emberiza striolata. See the extract.

noun. Same as doctor-fish.

noun. plural False or doctored dice.

noun. In some American universities, a degree superior to that of master of arts. Abbreviated Ph. D. See above, 2.

noun. In angling, a name applied to several artificial flies: as, the blue doctor, the silver doctor, etc.

noun. A boiler feed-pump such as has been preferred on the western rivers of the United States.

noun. The cook of a merchant vessel; also, the cook of a lumber-camp.

To treat, as a doctor or physician; treat medicinally; apply medicines for the cure of; administer medicine or medical treatment to: as, to doctor a disease; to doctor a patient.

To repair; mend; patch up.

To confer the degree of doctor upon.

To disguise by mixture or manipulation; especially, to alter for the purpose of deception; give a false appearance to; adulterate; cook up; tamper with: as, to doctor wine or an account.

To practise physic.

To receive medical treatment; take medicine: as, to doctor for ague.

intransitive verb. To practice physic.

transitive verb. To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair.

transitive verb. To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.

transitive verb. To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate

noun. A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge; a learned man.

noun. An academical title, originally meaning a man so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.

noun. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.

noun. Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency

noun. The friar skate.

noun. See under Commons.

noun. physic, medicine.

noun. any fish of the genus Acanthurus; the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called barber fish. See Surgeon fish.

noun. A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.