These are the meanings of the letters TODOCR when you unscramble them.
- 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.)
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.)
One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.
- Doctor (n.)
The friar skate.
- Doctor (v. i.)
To practice physic.
- 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.
- 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.