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A kind of baize of which the ward is cotton and the weft woolen. Blakely.

A massive mineral of tin-white or steel-gray color, an arsenide of copper.

Relating to, or shaped like, a dome.

To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate. Kent.

A member of a household; a domestic.

Of or pertaining to a domicile, or the residence of a person or family. The personal and domiciliary rights of the citizen scrupulously guarded. Motley. Domiciliary visit (Law), a visit to a private dwelling, particularly for searching it, under authority.

To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.

The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy. Milman.

The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc. [R.] R. Park.

To tame; to domesticate. [Obs.] Johnson.

Lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right. Burrill.

Predominance; ascendency; authority.

Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power. The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel. Macaulay. Dominant estate or tenement (Law), the estate to which a servitud…

To predominate over; to rule; to govern. "A city dominated by the ax." Dickens. We everywhere meet with Slavonian nations either dominant or dominated. W. Tooke.

The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or insolent sway. In such a people, the haugtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom. Burke.

Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.

A ruler or ruling power. "Sole dominator of Navarre." Shak. Jupiter and Mars are dominators for this northwest part of the world. Camden.

A name given to a pastor of the Reformed Church. The word is also applied locally in the United States, in colloquial speech, to any clergyman.

o bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents. Go to the feast, revel and domineer. Shak. His wishes tend abroad to roam, And hers to domineer at home. Prior.

Ruling arrogantly; overbearing. A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate. Blackw. Mag.