Chapter Diverge to Doree of D by Soule's Synonymes

Dock, v. a.

1. Curtail, clip, cut short.

2. Shorten, lessen, deduct from.

3. Put into a dock (as a vessel).

Doctor, n.

1. Instructor, teacher.

2. Adept, savant, learned man.

3. Physician, medical practitioner.

Doctress, n. Female physician.

Doctrinaire, n. [Fr.] Theorist, ideologist, unpractical thinker, preacher of abstractions.

Doctrine, n. Dogma, tenet, opinion, precept, principle.

Document, n. Paper, writing (official).

Dodge, v. n.

1. Start aside, shift place suddenly, duck.

2. (Colloq.) Shuffle, evade, equivocate, quibble, prevaricate, use artifice, play fast and loose, be evasive.

Dodge, v. a. Evade (by starting or ducking).

Dodge, n.

1. Starting aside.

2. (Colloq.) Evasion, artifice, trick, subterfuge, quibble, cavil.

Dodo, n. Dronte.

Doe, n. She-deer, female deer (particularly of the fallow deer).

Doer, n. Actor, operator, performer, agent, executor.

Doff, v. a. Put off, lay aside.

Dog-days, n. pl. Canicular days.