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itle or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers. Chesterfield.

That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances. "The doctrine of gravitation." I. Watts. A…

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

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

That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine. The obscure and loose dogmas of early antiquity. Whewell.

A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it is considered equivalent to a coarse-grained basalt.

A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables. R. H. Dana.

Lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right. Burrill.

spirit, power. The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel. Macaulay. Dominant estate or tenement (Law), the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate over which the servitude extends be…

A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.

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

The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.

Gentleness and sweetness of manner; agreeableness. Chesterfield.

A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded. [Political cant, U. S.]

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

Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. Raymond.

The tenure by which a drench held land. [Obs.] Burrill.

cooking utensils. The pewter plates on the dresser Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine. Longfellow.

ves persons from a room. A storm came on and drove them into Pylos. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Shield pressed on shield, and man drove man along. Pope. Go drive the deer and drag the finny prey. Pope.

-- Driving note (Mus.), a syncopated note; a tone begun on a weak part of a measure and held through the next accented part, thus anticipating the accent and driving it through. -- Driving spring, a spring fixed upon the box of the driving axle of a locomotive engine to support the weight and deaden shocks. [Eng.] We…