doctor's stuff

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doctor's stuff - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  doctor \doc"tor\, n. [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere
     to teach. See Docile.]
     1. A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of
        knowledge; a learned man. [Obs.]
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              One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. --
                                                    Bacon.
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     2. An academical title, originally meaning a man 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.
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     3. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the
        medical profession; a physician.
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              By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death
              Will seize the doctor too.            -- Shak.
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     4. 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.
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     5. (Zool.) The friar skate. [Prov. Eng.]
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     Doctors' Commons. See under Commons.
  
     Doctor's stuff, physic, medicine. --G. Eliot.
  
     Doctor fish (Zool.), any fish of the genus Acanthurus;
        the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike
        spine on each side of the tail. Also called barber fish.
        See Surgeon fish.
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