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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…

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.…

he day of the final judgment. I could not tell till doomsday. Chaucer. Doomsday Book. See Domesday Book.

A military vassal mentioned in Domesday Book. [Obs.] Burrill.

A measure of land mentioned in Domesday Book. It is supposed to have consisted of a few acres only. [Obs.]

A measure of land, common in Domesday Book and old English charters, the quantity of which is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres. [Written also hyde.]

A fathom. [Obs.] Domesday Book.

A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling.