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DOME n. 5 definitions

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

of the common law, the penalties for misdemeanors, and the forms of judicial proceedings. Domebook was probably a general name for book of judgments. Burrill.

Furnished with a dome; shaped like a dome.

A day of judgment. See Doomsday. [Obs.] Domesday Book, the ancient record of the survey of most of the lands of England, made by order of William the Conqueror, about 1086. It consists of two volumes, a large folio and a quarto, and gives the proprietors' tenures, arable land, woodland, etc. [Written also Doomsday Book…

A judge; an umpire. [Obs.]

DOMESTIC a. 7 definitions

rtaining 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.

DOMESTICAL a. 2 definitions

Domestic. [Obs.] Our private and domestical matter. Sir. P. Sidney.

DOMESTICALLY adv.

In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.

Forming part of the same family. [Obs.] Sir E. Dering.

DOMESTICATE v. 3 definitions

To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.

DOMESTICATION n.

The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.

DOMESTICATOR n.

One who domesticates.

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

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.

ABDOMEN n. 2 definitions

The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvi…

An instrument for measuring the evaporation from water, ice, or snow. Brande & C.

A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis. See Dome.

See under Dome.

To cover as with a dome.