These are the meanings of the letters CORDOTOMY when you unscramble them.
- Corody (n.)
An allowance of meat, drink, or clothing due from an abbey or other religious house for the sustenance of such of the king's servants as he may designate to receive it.
- 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.
- Tomcod (n.)
A small edible American fish (Microgadus tomcod) of the Codfish family, very abundant in autumn on the Atlantic coast of the Northen United States; -- called also frostfish. See Illust. under Frostfish.
- Tomcod (n.)
The jack. See 2d Jack, 8. (c).
- Tomcod (n.)
The kingfish. See Kingfish (a).