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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 d…

Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing. "Documentary evidence." Macaulay.

A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game. [Local, Eng.] Halliwell.

one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent. The doers of the law shall be justified. Rom. ii. 13.

continued usage; -- said of a book. Statute books before unopened, not dog-eared. Ld. Mansfield.

A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry. Doggerel like that of Hudibras. Addison. The ill-spelt lines of doggerel in which he expressed his reverence for the brave sufferers. Macaulay.

Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects. Dotted note (Mus.), a note followed by a dot to indicate an increase of length equal to one half of its simple value; thus, a dotted semibreve is equal to three minims, and a dotted quarter to three eighth notes. -- Dotted rest, a…

gains at examinations the highest honor both in the classics and the mathematics. Beaconsfield.

d one day in doubtful fight. Milton. The strife between the two principles had been long, fierce, and doubtful. Macaulay.

Gentleness and sweetness of manner; agreeableness. Chesterfield.

To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy. If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him. L'Estrange.

To transfer by draft. All her rents been drafted to London. Fielding.

A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman. Johnson.

duced by the atmosphere flowing, by its own weight, into a chimney wherein the air is rarefied by heat. -- On draught, so as to be drawn from the wood (as a cask, barrel, etc.) in distinction from being bottled; as, ale on draught. -- Sheer draught. See under Sheer.

An object of terrified apprehension.

To rush and press with violence; to move furiously. Fierce Boreas drove against his flying sails. Dryden. Under cover of the night and a driving tempest. Prescott. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Tennyson.

r is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand. "But sermons are mere drugs." Fielding. And virtue shall a drug become. Dryden.

rumhead court-martial (Mil.), a summary court-martial called to try offenses on the battlefield or the line of march, when, sometimes, a drumhead has to do service as a writing table.

A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.

uddenly withdraw. Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub. Fielding.