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Doctors

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False dice, which are doctored, or made to turn up winning numbers.

“‘The whole autechamber is full, my lordknights and squires, doctors and dicers.ʹ


“‘The dicers with their doctors in their pockets, I presume.ʹ”—Scott: Peveril of the Peak, chap. xxviii.


“Or chaired at White’s, amidst the doctors sit.”


Dunciad, book i. 203.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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