Word Meanings - DOCTORESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A female doctor.

FEMALE
A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
DOCTORATE
The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
DOCTORAL
Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor. Doctoral habit and square cap. Wood.
DOCTORLY
Like a doctor or learned man. "Doctorly prelates." Foxe.
FEMALE FERN
a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
DOCTORESS
A female doctor.
DOCTORALLY
In the manner of a doctor.
DOCTORSHIP
Doctorate. Clarendon.
DOCTOR
The friar skate. Doctors' Commons. See under Commons. -- Doctor's stuff, physic, medicine. G. Eliot. -- Doctor fish , any fish of the genus Acanthurus; the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also
FEMALE RHYMES
double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree
WATER DOCTOR
One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine. A physician who treats diseases with water; an hydropathist.