doco gloss ate (dokoglosat)

and n. [As Do coglo a + -atel.] 1. a. Pertaining to or having the characters of the Doco glo a; being one of the Patellidæ or limpets. At any rate, it is certain that the old views of a close relation between the Polyplacophore and the doco glo ate Gastropod a had very little morphological basis. doctoral breviated LL.D. ); doctor of civil law, abbreviated D. C. L. (L. leg is civil is doctor); doctor of both laws (civil and canon) (L. juris utriusque doctor, abbreviated J. U. D. ); doctor of philosophy, abbreviated D. P. (L. philosophiæ doc tor, abbreviated Ph. D.); doctor of science (L. scient iæ doctor, abbreviated Sc. D.); doctor of music, abbreviated D. M. (L. musicæ doctor, abbreviated Mus. D.)- the abbreviations of the Latin forms being more commonly used; doctor of dental surgery, abbreviated D. D. S.; doctor of veterinary surgery, abbreviated D. V. S. With us ther was a Doctour of Phisik, In al this world ne was ther non him lik To speke of phisik and of surger ye. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. Т., 1. 411. And the noumbre of doc to ures of Cyuyle and physyk was grete excedyngly. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 6. The doctor of the civil law had to prove his knowledge of the Digest and the Institutes. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 311. Specifically-3. A person duly licensed to practise medicine; a physician; one whose occupation is to cure diseases. [In the second and third senses much used as a title before the person's name (and then often abbreviated Dr. ), or alone, as a customary term of addre : as, Doctor Martin Luther; Doctor Johnson; Dr. Holmes; come in, doctor .] When ill, indeed, E'en dismi ing the doctor don't always succeed. Colman the Younger , Lodgings for Single Gentlemen. 4. 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-pre 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. [In some uses the word is probably a corruption of L. duc tor, leader.] -5. An auxiliary steam-engine; a donkey-engine.-6. In wine- making: (a) A liquor used to mix with inferior wine to make it more palatable, or to give it a resemblance to a better wine. (b) A liquor used to darken the color of wine, as boiled must mixed with pale sherry to produce brown sherry. See sherry, mos to, and must.-7. A translation of a local name in North Africa of the bird Em beriza striolata. See the extract. The house-sparrow is not found; between Morocco and Mogador its place is taken by a beautiful bird (Emberiza striolata), locally called tabib, or "the doctor ." Encyc. Brit ., XVI. 833. 8. Same as doctor- fish .-9. pl . False or doc- tored dice. [Old slang.] Now, Sir, here is your true dice; a man seldom gets any- thing by them; here is your false, Sir; hey how they run! Now, Sir, those we generally call doctors . Mrs. Cent livre, Gamester, i. Doctor of philosophy. ( a ) In the German universities, a degree corresponding to master of arts. (b) In some American universities, a degree superior to that of mas- ter of arts. Abbreviated Ph. D. See above, 2.- Doctors'