Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Doctoring"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Doctor \Doc"tor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Doctored}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Doctoring}.]
1. To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to
repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.
[Colloq.]
2. To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
3. To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to
falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to
doctor whisky. [Slang]
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