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to cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse. His top was docked like a priest biforn. Chaucer.

Nipplewort.

A charge for the use of a dock.

A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly. On the docket, in hand; in the plan; under consideration; in process of execution or performance. [Colloq.]

A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding.

The Osage orange. [Southwestern U.S.]

A genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or wool of animals.

A plant or weed that grows in rivers; a species of of Equisetum; also, the yellow frog lily (Nuphar luteum).

The rotten body of a tree. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

See under Dock.

each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie. Norway haddock, a marine edible fish (Sebastes marinus) of Northern Europe and America. See Rose fish.

See Hordock.

An unidentified plant mentioned by Shakespeare, perhaps equivalent to burdock.

See Jacksnipe.

A toad or frog. Wyclif. "Loathed paddocks." Spenser Paddock pipe (Bot.), a hollow-stemmed plant of the genus Equisetum, especially E. limosum and the fruiting stems of E. arvense; -- called also padow pipe and toad pipe. See Equisetum. -- Paddock stone. See Toadstone. -- Paddock stool (Bot.),a toadstool.…

Any species of Pholas; a pholad. See Pholas.

A small inclosure. [Written also purrock.] [Prov. Eng.]

The ruddock. [Prov. Eng.]

The European robin. "The tame ruddock and the coward kite." Chaucer.

A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous.