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The common yellow water lily (Nuphar advena).

To take out of dock; as, to undock a ship.

A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American water dock is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is R. Hydrolapathum.

nies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock.

A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut.

A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.

The Norway haddock. See Rosefish.

A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.

A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Hæmodoraceæ), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.

An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes. Bollard timber (Naut.), a timber, also called a knighthead, rising just within the stem in a ship, on either side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.

lants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs. Amongst rude burs and thistles. Milton. Bur and brake and brier. Tennyson.

A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins.

um) with yellow flowers; wild mustard. It is troublesome in grain fields. Called also chardock, chardlock, chedlock, and kedlock. Jointed charlock, White charlock, a troublesome weed (Raphanus Raphanistrum) with straw- colored, whitish, or purplish flowers, and jointed pods: wild radish.

Chrysophanic acid (Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance extracted from rhubarb, yellow dock, sienna, chrysarobin, etc., and shown to be a derivative of an anthracene. It is used in the treatment of skin diseases; -- called also rhein, rheic acid, rhubarbarin, etc.

The burdock. [Prov. Engl.] Prior.

The common burdock; the clotbur. [Obs.] Wyclif.

ouse; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater.

A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.

A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.

A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running; hence, a dog not fit for sporting. Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs. Shak.…