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Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong. Macaulay.

A family; a household. [Obs.]

The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.

A member of a household; a domestic.

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

To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense. [Obs.]

hout any consideration, as a free gift. Bouvier. Donation party, a party assembled at the house of some one, as of a clergyman, each one bringing some present. [U.S.] Bartlett.

stiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty. Ere Hector meets his doom. Pope. And homely household task shall be her doom. Dryden.

An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way. To the same end, men several paths may tread, As many doors into one temple lead. Denham.

One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.

The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house.

A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or " sleep." Arch. Pub. Soc. -- Called also dormant tree, dorman tree, dormond, and dormer. Halliwell.

of, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.

A customhouse.

A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.

." Sir P. Sidney. I remember how you downed Beauclerk and Hamilton, the wits, once at our house. Madame D'Arblay.

nother in a descending line. A ring the county wears, That downward hath descended in his house, From son to son, some four or five descents. Shak.

s thou wilt, still, Slavery, . . . still thou art a bitter draught. Sterne. Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired. Goldsmith.

A housebreaker or thief. [Obs.] Old Play (1631).