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    donkey engine
    [ noun ]
    1. a locomotive for switching rolling stock in a railroad yard

    2. <noun.artifact>
    3. (nautical) a small engine (as one used on board ships to operate a windlass)

    4. <noun.artifact>


    Donkey \Don"key\ (d[o^][ng]"k[y^]), n.; pl. {Donkeys}
    (d[o^][ng]"k[i^]z). [Prob. dun, in allusion to the color of
    the animal + a dim. termination.]
    1. An ass; or (less frequently) a mule.

    2. A stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass.

    {Donkey engine}, a small auxiliary engine not used for
    propelling, but for pumping water into the boilers,
    raising heavy weights, and like purposes.

    {Donkey pump}, a steam pump for feeding boilers,
    extinguishing fire, etc.; -- usually an auxiliary.

    {Donkey's eye} (Bot.), the large round seed of the {Mucuna
    pruriens}, a tropical leguminous plant.

    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.]

    One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. --
    Bacon.

    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.

    3. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the
    medical profession; a physician.

    By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death
    Will seize the doctor too. -- Shak.

    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}.

    5. (Zo["o]l.) The friar skate. [Prov. Eng.]

    {Doctors' Commons}. See under {Commons}.

    {Doctor's stuff}, physic, medicine. --G. Eliot.

    {Doctor fish} (Zo["o]l.), 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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