Dock
a sour-juiced herb allied to rhubarb and buckwheat, as may be noted by the shape of the seed. Another ally is the sheep sorrel (not wood sorrel) of run-out fields. The leaves of the various kinds differ greatly in shape, but their margins are curly. Boys find a dock leaf, well rubbed in, a convenient remedy for the sting of a nettle. Decoctions of dock root are of value in medicine. The water dock, with its large leaves and acrid root, was held in reverence by the Druids.
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Dock
a name applied to different plants of the genus Rumex, belonging to the rhubarb family. These are large herbaceous plants, with stout roots, and bearing panicles of small greenish flowers. flow The roots of some of them are used medicinally as astringents.
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Dock Warrants
orders for goods kept in the warehouses connected with a dock. They are granted by the proper officer at the dock to the the importer in favor of any one that he may name. These warrants are held to be negoti able, so that they may pass from one holder to another, the property of them being always vested in the holder. DOCK YARD. See NAVY YARDS.
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Docket
or DOCQUET, in law, a term variously used, as for a summary of a larger writing; a small piece of paper or parchment containing the heads of a writing; an alphabetical list of cases in a court, or a catalogue of the names of the parties who have suits depending in a court.
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Doddridge
PHILIP, an English Nonconformist clergyman and author; born in London, June 26, 1702. The Duchess of Bedford offered him an education at either university and provision in the Church; but he determined to enter the Nonconformist ministry. He was educated at a theological academy at Kibworth, in Leicestershire. In 1723 Doddridge became pastor of the dissenting congregation at Kibworth. He settled in 1729 at Northampton as minister and president of a theological academy. Here he continued to preach and train young students for the ministry till shortly before his death, which occurred Oct. 26, 1751, in Lisbon. Doddridge was at once liberal and evangelical. His principal work is "The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul" (1745), which has been translated into Dutch, German, Danish, French, and even Syriac and Tamil. Besides this, may be mentioned "The Family Expositor" (6 vols. 1739-1756). His hymns have carried his name over the English-speaking religious world, perhaps the best known being "Hark, the glad sound, the Saviour comes," and "O God of Bethel, by whose hand." His works fill 10 volumes (Leeds, 1802-1805). His "Correspondence and Diary" was edited by his great-grandson (5 vols. 1829-1831).
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Dodge
GRENVILLE MELLEN, an American military officer; born in Danvers, Mass., April 12, 1831; educated at Partridge's Military Academy and Norwich University; and was employed as an engineer in the construction of the Il-paign of Chancellorsville" (1881); a linois Central and Rock Island railroads. He entered the Civil War as colonel of the 4th Iowa Infantry; commanded a brigade at Pea Ridge in March, 1862, and became a Major-General of United States volunteers in June, 1864. He commanded a corps of General Sherman's army in the campaign against Atlanta (1864), and succeeded Rosecrans as com- Missouri mander of the Department of After the in December of that year. Union war he was chief engineer of the Pacific railroad and superintended its construction, and was a member of Congress from Iowa in 1867-1869. He succeeded General Sherman as president of the Association of the Army of the Tennessee in 1894, and was also president of Loyal the New York Commandery of the made chairman Legion. In 1898 he was to inof the President's Commission quire into the management of the War Department in the war with Spain. He died Jan. 3, 1916.
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Dodge (II)
MARY ABIGAIL, an American journalist and author; born in several Hamilton, Mass., in 1838. For in the High years she was instructor 1865 to School at Hartford, Conn. From editors of "Our 1867 she was one of the Young Folks." Besides numerous contributions to current literature, she has of "Gail written, under the pseudonym Days" (1863); Hamilton": "Gala "Woman's Wrongs" (1868); "The Battle Worth of the Books" (1870); "Woman's and Worthlessness" (1871); "The Insuppressible Book" (1885); "Red-Letter Days"; "Country Living and Country Miles from Thinking"; "Twelve a Lemon"; and "Biography of James G. Hamilton, Mass. Blaine." She died in , Aug. 17, 1896.
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Dodge (III)
MARY ELIZABETH MAPES, an American editor, author, and poet; born in New York City in 1838. the editor of Since 1873 she has been "St. Nicholas" (magazine), New York. Brinker, Her best-known work is "Hans or the Silver Skates" (1876), which has for foreign been translated into five languages. Among her other works, are: 1864); "Theo- "Irvington Stories" ( Along the philus, and Others" (1876); " and Dorothy" Way" (1879); "Donald Pluck." She died (1883); "The Land of Aug. 22, 1905.
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Dodge (IV)
THEODORE AYRAULT, an American military officer and writer; born in Pittsfield, Mass., May 28, 1842; abroad received his military education . he en- Returning to the United States, listed (1861) in the Union service as a colonel private, attaining the rank of , "The Cam- Dec. 2, 1865. He published; "Bird's-Eye View of the Civil War" (1883); "A Chat in the Saddle" (1885); called "Great and a series of studies Captains," comprising volumes on Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Gustavus Adolphus, etc. He died Oct. 26, 1909.
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Dodge (V)
WILLIAM EARL, an American capitalist; born in Hartford, Conn., Sept. 4, 1805. He received a common wholesale school education, entered the 1833 became dry-goods business, and in a member of the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co., retiring in 1879 with a large fortune. He was director of the Erie railroad, president of the New York Chamber trustee of Union Theologiof Commerce, cal Seminary, a founder of the Union ardent League of New York, and an died in New friend of the freedman. He York City, Feb. 9, 1883.
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Dodge City
a city of Kansas, the the county-seat of Ford co. It is on , Arkansas river, and on the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fé and the Chicago, . Rock Island and Pacific railroads It stock-raisis the center of an important . In the ing and wheat-growing district shipping point seventies it was the chief offices and mafor cattle. The division Fe railroad are chine shops of the Santa located here. It is the seat of St. Mary's a public of the Plains Academy, and has United States Land Office library and a Pop and Weather Bureau building. . (1910) 3,214; (1920) 5,061.
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