(US, rare, dated) A male given name or nickname. / A surname.

The title of an academic or medical doctor (a person who holds a doctorate); used before or instead of the doctor's name.

(obsolete) A summary; a brief digest. / (law) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.

(transitive) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial. / (transitive) To label a parcel, etc.

Instructive; that teaches.

A teacher or lecturer at some universities (in central Europe, etc.) / (chiefly US) A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc.

A person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility. / (historical) In France, in 1815-30, one of a school who desired a constitution like that of Britain.

Stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality.

(US) A food preparation utensil resembling a small rolling pin with spikes, used to pierce dough to prevent overrising or blistering.

Of, related to, or based on documents. / Which serves to document (record and:or illustrate) a subject. / (of a film, book etc) Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.