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Pertaining to, or measured by, a pedometer.

That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more commonly called abdomen.

One of the several parts composing a rhabdom.

Juice of roses mixed with honey. Simmonds.

A roof or ceiling covering a semicircular room or recess, or one of nearly that shape, as the apse of a church, a niche, or the like. It is approximately the quarter of a hollow sphere.

An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.

Of, or relating to, the measuring of streets or roads. [R.]

A rain gauge.

To make wild or roving.

Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the abdominal regions, muscles, cavity.

ter part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease.

Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.

To assign; to appoint. [R.] One of the domestics was affected to his special service. Thackeray.

A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines.

Domestic or other work of all kinds; as, a maid of allwork, that is, a general servant.

An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.

onqueror, were held. The numbers, names, etc., of these were all entered in a book called Domesday Book. -- Ancient lights (Law), windows and other openings which have been enjoined without molestation for more than twenty years. In England, and in some of the United States, they acquire a prescriptive right.…

lia) which has given its name to a goat, a cat, etc. Angora cat (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic cat with very long and silky hair, generally of the brownish white color. Called also Angola cat. See Cat. -- Angora goat (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic goat, reared for its long silky hair, which is highly prized fo…