DOME

n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry. Approach the dome, the social banquet share. Pope.

2.
n.

A cupola formed on a large scale.

3.
n.

Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.

4.
n.

A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.

5.
n.

Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision. [Obs.] Chaucer.


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