dock (2)

i. [Dock (3), s.] 1. Gen.: To bring into dock or harbor. 3. Specif .: To place a ve el in a dry-dock, supporting her with blocks and shores in an upright position for purposes of repair. "They found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors." - Luke ii. 46. 2. A learned, able, or skillful man. "Of such doctrine never was there school, But the heart of the fool, And no man therein doctor but himself." Milton : Samson Agonistes , 297-299 3. In the same sense as II. 1. "So lived our sires ere doctors learned to kill, And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill." Dryden: To my Honored Kinsman , 71, 72. II. Technically : 1. Med .: A physician; one who is duly licensed and qualified to practice medicine; one whose profe ion is the treatment and cure of diseases. 2. Univ.: One who has taken the highest degree a faculty. 3. Law : The a umption of the functions of Doctor of Medicine by an unqualified or unlicensed person is in most of the states punishable by fine. doctoring 4. Mach .: A part in a machine for regulating quantity, adjusting, or feeding: (1) Paper - making : A steel edge on the pre ure roll of a paper-machine to remove any adhering fibers. (2) Steam - engine : A donkey-engine. An auxiliary steam-engine to feed the boiler. (3) Calico - print .: A scraper to remove superfluous coloring-matter from the cylinder. The color-doctor of a calico-printing machine, which wipes superfluous color from the face of the engraved roller. The lint-doctor, which removes fluff and loose threads from the said roller. The cleaning-doctor, which wipes clean the surface of the roller. [Dcc TOR.] 5. Wines: A name given to brown sherry, from its being concocted from a harsh thin wine by the addition of old boiled mos to stock. The syrup when added to fresh must ferments and the product is used for doctoring up inferior wines. [MOSTO.] *6. Gaming ( pl .): False dice. "Here are the little doctors , which cure the distempers of the purse."- Fielding : Tom Jones , bk. viii., ch. xii. 7. Ichthy.: The same as DOCTOR-FISH (q. v.). To put the doctor on or upon one: To cheat. [DOCTOR, S., 11. 6.] "Perhaps ways and means may be found to put the doc tor upon the old prig."-T. Browne: Works , i. 236. doctor-fish, s . Ichthy.: A name given to the species of fishes belonging to the genus Acanth urus, from the sharp, lancet-like spines on each side of the tail, which will extract blood from the hands of those who handle them incautiously. They are also called Surgeon-fish (q.v.). [ACANTH URUS]