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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.

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

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

A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages.

The quality or state of being predominant; superiority; ascendency; prevalence; predomination. The predominance of conscience over interest. South.

Predominance. Bacon.

cendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence. Those help . . . were predominant in the king's mind. Bacon. Foul subordination is predominant. Shak.

In a predominant manner.

ave controlling power or influence; to prevail; to rule; to have the mastery; as, love predominated in her heart. [Certain] rays may predominate over the rest. Sir. I. Newton.

The act or state of predominating; ascendency; predominance. W. Browne.

The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; -- so called as being under the dominant.

The sixth tone of the scale; that next above the dominant; -- called also submediant.

Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease.

To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. [Amer.] Bartlett.