Doctor(n.) A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.
Doctor(n.) An 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 diplomas may confer an honorary title only.
Doctor(n.) One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.
Doctor(n.) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.
Doctor(n.) The friar skate.
Doctor(v. i.) To practice physic.
Doctor(v. t.) To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.
Doctor(v. t.) To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
Doctor(v. t.) To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.
Doctoral(a.) Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor.
Doctorally(adv.) In the manner of a doctor.
Doctorate(n.) The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
Doctorate(v. t.) To make (one) a doctor.
Doctored(imp. & p. p.) of Doctor
Doctoring(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Doctor
Doctorly(a.) Like a doctor or learned man.

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