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A teacher; an instructor; a learned man; one skilled in a learned profession.
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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.
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Specifically A person duly licensed to practise medicine; a physician; one whose occupation is to cure diseases.
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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.
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An auxiliary steam-engine; a donkey-engine.
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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.
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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.
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A translation of a local name in North Africa of the bird Emberiza striolata. See the extract.
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Same as doctor-fish.
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plural False or doctored dice.
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In some American universities, a degree superior to that of master of arts. Abbreviated Ph. D. See above, 2.
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In angling, a name applied to several artificial flies: as, the blue doctor, the silver doctor, etc.
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A boiler feed-pump such as has been preferred on the western rivers of the United States.
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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.