Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 83

Do (v. t. or auxiliary) To bring to an end by action; to perform completely; to finish; to accomplish; -- a sense conveyed by the construction, which is that of the past participle done. "Ere summer half be done." "I have done weeping." -- Shak.

Do (v. t. or auxiliary) To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat is done on one side only.

Do (v. t. or auxiliary) To put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text.

Done to death by slanderous tongues. -- Shak.

The ground of the difficulty is done away. -- Paley.

Suspicions regarding his loyalty were entirely done away. -- Thackeray.

To do on our own harness, that we may not; but we must do on the armor of God. -- Latimer.

Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen tunic. -- W. Morris (Jason).

Though the former legal pollution be now done off, yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as much to be shunned. -- Milton.

It ["Pilgrim's Progress"] has been done into verse: it has been done into modern English. -- Macaulay.

Do (v. t. or auxiliary) To cheat; to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.]

He was not be done, at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent. -- De Quincey.

Do (v. t. or auxiliary) To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of interest. [Colloq.]

Do (v. t. or auxiliary) (Stock Exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.

Do (v. t. or auxiliary) To perform work upon, about, for, or at, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, or the like.

The sergeants seem to do themselves pretty well. -- Harper's Mag.

Do (v. t. or auxiliary) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for. [Colloq. or Slang]

Sometimes they lie in wait in these dark streets, and fracture his skull, . . . or break his arm, or cut the sinew of his wrist; and that they call doing him. -- Charles Reade.

Note: (a) Do and did are much employed as auxiliaries, the verb to which they are joined being an infinitive. As an auxiliary the verb do has no participle. "I do set my bow in the cloud." -- Gen. ix. 13. [Now archaic or rare except for emphatic assertion.]

Rarely . . . did the wrongs of individuals to the knowledge of the public. -- Macaulay.

Note: (b) They are often used in emphatic construction. "You don't say so, Mr. Jobson. -- but I do say so." -- Sir W. Scott. "I did love him, but scorn him now." -- Latham.

Note: (c) In negative and interrogative constructions, do and did are in common use. I do not wish to see them; what do you think? Did C[ae]sar cross the Tiber? He did not. "Do you love me?" -- Shak.

Note: (d) Do, as an auxiliary, is supposed to have been first used before imperatives. It expresses entreaty or earnest request; as, do help me. In the imperative mood, but not in the indicative, it may be used with the verb to be; as, do be quiet. Do, did, and done often stand as a general substitute or representative verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal verb. "To live and die is all we have to do." -- Denham. In the case of do and did as auxiliaries, the sense may be completed by the infinitive (without to) of the verb represented. "When beauty lived and died as flowers do now." -- Shak. "I . . . chose my wife as she did her wedding gown." -- Goldsmith.
My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being.

As the light does the shadow. -- Longfellow.

In unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the most part, archaic or poetical; as, "This just reproach their virtue does excite." -- Dryden.

To do one's best, To do one's diligence (and the like), To exert one's self; to put forth one's best or most or most diligent efforts. "We will . . . do our best to gain their assent." -- Jowett (Thucyd.).

To do one's business, To ruin one. [Colloq.] -- Wycherley.

To do one shame, To cause one shame. [Obs.]

To do over. To make over; to perform a second time.

To do over. To cover; to spread; to smear. "Boats . . . sewed together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff like rosin." -- De Foe.

To do to death, To put to death. (See 7.) [Obs.]

To do up. To put up; to raise. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

To do up. To pack together and envelop; to pack up.

To do up. To accomplish thoroughly. [Colloq.]

To do up. To starch and iron. "A rich gown of velvet, and a ruff done up with the famous yellow starch." -- Hawthorne.

To do way, To put away; to lay aside. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

To do with, To dispose of; to make use of; to employ; -- usually preceded by what. "Men are many times brought to that extremity, that were it not for God they would not know what to do with themselves." -- Tillotson.

To have to do with, To have concern, business or intercourse with; to deal with. When preceded by what, the notion is usually implied that the affair does not concern the person denoted by the subject of have. "Philology has to do with language in its fullest sense." -- Earle. "What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah?" -- 2 Sam. xvi. 10.

Do (v. i.) To act or behave in any manner; to conduct one's self.

They fear not the Lord, neither do they after . . . the law and commandment. -- 2 Kings xvii. 34.

Do (v. i.) To fare; to be, as regards health; as, they asked him how he did; how do you do to-day?

Do (v. i.) To succeed; to avail; to answer the purpose; to serve; as, if no better plan can be found, he will make this do.

You would do well to prefer a bill against all kings and parliaments since the Conquest; and if that won't do; challenge the crown. -- Collier.

To do by. See under By.

To do for. To answer for; to serve as; to suit.

To do for. To put an end to; to ruin; to baffle completely; as, a goblet is done for when it is broken. [Colloq.]

Some folks are happy and easy in mind when their victim is stabbed and done for. -- Thackeray.

To do withal, To help or prevent it. [Obs.] "I could not do withal." -- Shak.

To do without, To get along without; to dispense with.

To have done, To have made an end or conclusion; to have finished; to be quit; to desist.

To have done with, To have completed; to be through with; to have no further concern with.

Well to do, In easy circumstances.

Do (n.) Deed; act; fear. [Obs.] -- Sir W. Scott.

Do (n.) Ado; bustle; stir; to do. [R.]

A great deal of do, and a great deal of trouble. -- Selden.

Do (n.) A cheat; a swindle. [Slang, Eng.]

Do (n.) An uproarious party [syn: bash, do, brawl]

Do (n.) The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization [syn: do, doh, ut].

Do (n.) Doctor's degree in osteopathy [syn: Doctor of Osteopathy, DO].

Do (v.) Engage in; "make love, not war"; "make an effort"; "do research"; "do nothing"; "make revolution" [syn: make, do].

Do (v.) Carry out or perform an action; "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance" [syn: perform, execute, do].

Do (v.) Get (something) done; "I did my job" [syn: do, perform].

Do (v.) Proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?"; "How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come a long way" [syn: do, fare, make out, come, get along].

Do (v.) Give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident" [syn: cause, do, make].

Do (v.) Carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions; "practice law" [syn: practice, practise, exercise, do].

Do (v.) Be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity; "A few words would answer"; "This car suits my purpose well"; "Will $100 do?"; "A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school"; "Nothing else will serve" [syn: suffice, do, answer, serve].

Do (v.) Create or design, often in a certain way; "Do my room in blue"; "I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest" [syn: do, make] [ant: undo, unmake].

Do (v.) Behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" [syn: act, behave, do].

Do (v.) Spend time in prison or in a labor camp; "He did six years for embezzlement" [syn: serve, do].

Do (v.) Carry on or function; "We could do with a little more help around here" [syn: do, manage].

Do (v.) Arrange attractively; "dress my hair for the wedding" [syn: dress, arrange, set, do, coif, coiffe, coiffure].

Do (v.) Travel or traverse (a distance); "This car does 150 miles per hour"; "We did 6 miles on our hike every day".

Do () Distributed Objects (NeXT)

Do () Repeat loop.

Do () The country code for Dominican Republic. (1999-06-10)

Doab () A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers; as, the doab between the Ganges and the Jumna. [India] -- Am. Cyc.

Doable (a.) Capable of being done. -- Carlyle.

Doable (a.) Capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do [syn: accomplishable, achievable, doable, manageable, realizable].

Do-all (n.) General manager; factotum.

Under him, Dunstan was the do-all at court, being the king's treasurer, councilor, chancellor, confessor, all things. -- Fuller.

Doand (p. pr.) Doing. [Obs.] -- Rom. of R.

Doat (v. i.) See Dote.

Compare: Dabchick

Dabchick (n.) (Zool.) A small water bird ({Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.

Dobber (n.) (Zool.) See Dabchick.

Dobber (n.) A float to a fishing line. [Local, U. S.]

Dobbin (n.) An old jaded horse. -- Shak.

Dobbin (n.) Sea gravel mixed with sand. [Prov. Eng.]

Dobbin (n.) A quiet plodding workhorse [syn: farm horse, dobbin].

Dabchick (n.) (Zool.) A small water bird ({Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.

Dobchick (n.) (Zool.) See Dabchick.

Dobson (n.) (Zool.) The aquatic larva of a large neuropterous insect ({Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in angling. See Hellgamite.

Compare: Graining

Graining (n.) (Zool.) A small European fresh-water fish ({Leuciscus vulgaris); -- called also dobule, and dace.

Dobule (n.) (Zool.) The European dace.

Docent (a.) Serving to instruct; teaching. [Obs.]

Docent (n.) A teacher at some universities.

Docetae (n. pl.) (Eccl. Hist.) Ancient heretics who held that Christ's body was merely a phantom or appearance.

Docetic (a.) Pertaining to, held by, or like, the Docetae. "Docetic Gnosticism." -- Plumptre.

Docetism (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) The doctrine of the Docetae.

Docetism (n.) The heretical doctrine (associated with the Gnostics) that Jesus had no human body and his sufferings and death on the cross were apparent rather than real.

Dochmiac (a.) (Pros.) Pertaining to, or containing, the dochmius.

Dochmius (n.) (Pros.) A foot of five syllables (usually ? -- -? -). Docibility

Docibility (n.) Alt. of Docibleness.

Docibleness (n.) Aptness for being taught; teachableness; docility.

To persons of docibility, the real character may be easily taught in a few days. -- Boyle.

The docibleness of dogs in general. -- Walton.

Docible (a.) Easily taught or managed; teachable. -- Milton.

Docile (a.) 馴服的；易駕御的；容易教的；可教的 Teachable; easy to teach; docible. [Obs.]

Docile (a.) Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child.

The elephant is at once docible and docile. -- C. J. Smith.

Docile (a.) Willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation" [ant: obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate].

Docile (a.) Ready and willing to be taught; "docile pupils eager for instruction"; "teachable youngsters" [syn: docile, teachable].

Docile (a.) Easily handled or managed; "a gentle old horse, docile and obedient" [syn: docile, gentle].

Docility (n.) Teachableness; aptness for being taught; docibleness. [Obs. or R.]

Docility (n.) Willingness to be taught; tractableness.

The humble docility of little children is, in the New Testament, represented as a necessary preparative to the reception of the Christian faith. -- Beattie.

Docility (n.) The trait of being agreeably submissive and manageable.

Docimacy (n.) The art or practice of applying tests to ascertain the nature, quality, etc., of objects, as of metals or ores, of medicines, or of facts pertaining to physiology.

Docimastic (a.) Proving by experiments or tests.

Docimastic art, Metallurgy, or the art of assaying metals; the art of separating metals from foreign matters, and determining the nature and quantity of metallic substances contained in any ore or mineral.

Docimology (n.) A treatise on the art of testing, as in assaying metals, etc.

Docity (n.) Teachableness. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U. S.]

Dock (n.) (Bot.) A genus of plants ({Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination.

Note: Yellow dock is Rumex crispus, with smooth curly leaves and yellow root, which that of other species is used medicinally as an astringent and tonic.

Dock (n.) The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting. -- Grew.

Dock (n.) A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.

Docked (imp. & p. p.) of Dock.

Docking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dock.

Dock (v. t.) To cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse.

His top was docked like a priest biforn. -- Chaucer.

Dock (v. t.) To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages.

Dock (v. t.) To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail.

Dock (n.) An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.

Dock (n.) The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock.

Dock (n.) The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands.

Balance dock, A kind of floating dock which is kept level by pumping water out of, or letting it into, the compartments of side chambers.

Dry dock, A dock from which the water may be shut or pumped out, especially, one in the form of a chamber having walls and floor, often of masonry and communicating with deep water, but having appliances for excluding it; -- used in constructing or repairing ships. The name includes structures used for the examination, repairing, or building of vessels, as graving docks, floating docks, hydraulic docks, etc.

Floating dock, A dock which is made to become buoyant, and, by floating, to lift a vessel out of water.

Graving dock, A dock for holding a ship for graving or cleaning the bottom, etc.

Hydraulic dock, A dock in which a vessel is raised clear of the water by hydraulic presses.

Naval dock, A dock connected with which are naval stores, materials, and all conveniences for the construction and repair of ships.

Sectional dock, A form of floating dock made in separate sections or caissons.

Slip dock, A dock having a sloping floor that extends from deep water to above high-water mark, and upon which is a railway on which runs a cradle carrying the ship.

Wet dock, A dock where the water is shut in, and kept at a given level, to facilitate the loading and unloading of ships; -- also sometimes used as a place of safety; a basin.

Dock (v. t.) To draw, law, or place (a ship) in a dock, for repairing, cleaning the bottom, etc.

Dock (n.) An enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial.

Dock (n.) Any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine [syn: dock, sorrel, sour grass].

Dock (n.) A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats [syn: pier, wharf, wharfage, dock].

Dock (n.) A platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded [syn: dock, loading dock].

Dock (n.) Landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out; "the ship arrived at the dock more than a day late" [syn: dock, dockage, docking facility].

Dock (n.) The solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair.

Dock (n.) A short or shortened tail of certain animals [syn: bobtail, bob, dock].

Dock (v.) Come into dock; "the ship docked" [ant: undock].

Dock (v.) Deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty.

Dock (v.) Deduct from someone's wages.

Dock (v.) Remove or shorten the tail of an animal [syn: dock, tail, bob].

Dock (v.) Maneuver into a dock; "dock the ships" [ant: undock].

Dockage (n.) A charge for the use of a dock.

Dockage (n.) A fee charged for a vessel to use a dock [syn: dockage, docking fee].

Dockage (n.) Landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out; "the ship arrived at the dock more than a day late" [syn: dock, dockage, docking facility].

Dockage (n.) The act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes [syn: docking, moorage, dockage, tying up].

Compare: Nipplewort

Nipplewort  (n.) (Bot.) A yellow-flowered composite herb ({Lampsana communis), formerly used as an external application to the nipples of women; -- called also dock-cress.

Dock-cress (n.) (Bot.) Nipplewort.

Docket (n.) A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.

Docket (n.) A bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent; a label. -- Bailey.

Docket (n.) (Law) An abridged entry of a judgment or proceeding in an action, or register or such entries; a book of original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court.

Docket (n.) (Law) (U. S.) A list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or trial, prepared for the use of courts by the clerks.

Docket (n.) A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly.

On the docket, in hand; in the plan; under consideration; in process of execution or performance. [Colloq.]

Docketed (imp. & p. p.) of Docket.

Docketing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Docket.

Docket (v. t.) To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and indorse it on the back of the paper, or to indorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers. -- Chesterfield.

Docket (v. t.) (Law) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed.

Docket (v. t.) (Law) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.

Docket (v. t.) To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods.

Docket (n.) (Law) The calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities.

Docket (n.) A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to [syn: agenda, docket, schedule].

Docket (v.) Place on the docket for legal action; "Only 5 of the 120 cases docketed were tried".

Docket (v.) Make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list.

Docket, () practice. A formal record of judicial proceedings.

Docket, () The docket should contain the names of the parties, and a minute of every proceeding in the case. It is kept by the clerk or prothonotary of the court. A sheriff's docket is not a record. 9 Serg. & R. 91. Docket is also said to be a brief writing, on a small piece of paper or parchment, containing the substance of a larger writing.

Dockyard (n.) A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding.

Dockyard (n.) An establishment on the waterfront where vessels are built or fitted out or repaired.

Docoglossa (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of gastropods, including the true limpets, and having the teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon.

Docquet (n. & v.) See Docket.

Doctor (n.) A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.

Doctor (n.) An academical title, originally meaning a men 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; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.

Doctor (n.) One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.

Doctor (n.) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.

Doctor (n.) The friar skate.

Doctored (imp. & p. p.) of Doctor.

Doctoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doctor.

Doctor (v. t.) To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.

Doctor (v. t.) To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.

Doctor (v. t.) To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.

Doctor (v. i.) To practice physic.

Doctoral (a.) Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor.

Doctorally (adv.) In the manner of a doctor.

Doctorate (n.) The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.

Doctorate (v. t.) To make (one) a doctor.

Doctoress (n.) A female doctor.

Doctorly (a.) Like a doctor or learned man.

Doctorship (n.) Doctorate.

Doctress (n.) A female doctor. [R.]

Doctrinable (a.) Of the nature of, or constituting, doctrine. [Obs.] -- Sir P. Sidney.

Doctrinaire (n.) 空論家；教條主義者 One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions.

Note: In french history, the Doctrinaires were a constitutionalist party which originated after the restoration of the Bourbons, and represented the interests of liberalism and progress. After the Revolution of July, 1830, when they came into power, they assumed a conservative position in antagonism with the republicans and radicals. -- Am. Cyc.

Doctrinaire (a.) 空論的；教條主義的 Stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability.

Doctrinaire (n.) A stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions [syn: dogmatist, doctrinaire].

Doctrinal (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; as, a doctrinal observation.

Doctrinal (a.) Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching.

Doctrinal (n.) A matter of doctrine; also, a system of doctrines.

Doctrinally (adv.) In a doctrinal manner or for; by way of teaching or positive direction.

Doctrinarian (n.) A doctrinaire.

Doctrinarianism (n.) The principles or practices of the Doctrinaires.

Doctrine (n.) [U] [C]（宗教的）教義，教旨；主義，信條；政策 Teaching; instruction.

Doctrine (n.) That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances. "The doctrine of gravitation." -- I. Watts.

Doctrine (n.) A belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school [syn: {doctrine}, {philosophy}, {philosophical system}, {school of thought}, {ism}].

Doctrine (n.) [ C or U ] （尤指政治或宗教的）信條，教義，學說 A belief or set of beliefs, especially political or religious ones, that are taught and accepted by a particular group.

// Christian doctrine.

// The president said he would not go against sound military doctrine.

Document (n.) [C] 公文，文件；證件，單據 That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma. [Obs.]

Learners should not be too much crowded with a heap or multitude of documents or ideas at one time. -- I. Watts.

Document (n.) An example for instruction or warning. [Obs.]

They were forth with stoned to death, as a document to others. -- Sir W. Raleigh.

Document (n.) [ C ] (A2) （尤指正式的）文件，公文 A paper or set of papers with written or printed information, especially of an official type.

// Official/ confidential/ legal documents.

// They are charged with using forged documents.

Document (n.) [ C ] (B1) （電腦）文件，文檔 A text that is written and stored on a computer.

// I'll send you the document by email.

Document (v.) [ T ] 記錄，記載 To record the details of an event, a process, etc.

// His interest in cars has been well-documented (= recorded and written about) by the media.

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