Chapter 53

If the plane is parallel to the longer diagonal (macrodiagonal) of the prism, it is called a macrodome; if parallel to the shorter (brachydiagonal), it is a brachydome; if parallel to the inclined diagonal in a monoclinic crystal, it is called a clinodome; if parallel to the orthodiagonal axis, an orthodome. Dana.

Dome, n. [See Doom.] Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Dome"book` (?), n. [Dome doom + book.] (O. Eng. Law) A book said to have been compiled under the direction of King Alfred. It is supposed to have contained the principal maxims 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.

Domed (?), a. Furnished with a dome; shaped like a dome.

Domes"day` (?), n. 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.]

Domes"man (?), n.; pl. Domesmen (#). [See Doom.] A judge; an umpire. [Obs.]

Do*mes"tic (?), a. [L. domesticus, fr. domus use: cf. F. domestique. See 1st Dome.] 1. 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.

4. Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions. Shak.

3. Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.

4. Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.

5. Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.

Do*mes"tic, n. 1. One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant.

The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic.

V. Knox.

2. pl. (Com.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. [U. S.]

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Do*mes"tic*al (?), a. Domestic. [Obs.]

Our private and domestical matter.

Sir. P. Sidney.

Do*mes"tic*al, n. A family; a household. [Obs.]

Do*mes"tic*al*ly, adv. In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.

Do*mes"ti*cant (?), a. Forming part of the same family. [Obs.] Sir E. Dering.

Do*mes"ti*cate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Domesticated; p. pr. & vb. n. Domesticating.] [LL. domesticatus, p. p. of domesticare to reside in, to tame. See Domestic, a.] 1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.

2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.

3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.

Do*mes`ti*ca"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. domestication.] The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.

Do*mes"ti*ca`tor (?), n. One who domesticates.

Do`mes*tic"i*ty (?), n. [LL. domesticitas: cf. F. domesticité.] The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.

Dom"ett (?), n. A kind of baize of which the ward is cotton and the weft woolen. Blakely.

Do"mey*kite (?), n. [Named after Domeyko, a mineralogist of Chili.] (Min.) A massive mineral of tin-white or steel-gray color, an arsenide of copper.

Dom"i*cal (?), a. Relating to, or shaped like, a dome.

Dom"i*cile (?), n. [L. domicilium; domus house + (prob.) root of celare to conceal: cf. F. domicile. See Dome, and Conceal.] 1. An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or a family.

2. (Law) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode. Wharton.

Dom"i*cile, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Domiciled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Domiciling.] [Cf. F. domicilier. Cf. Domiciliate.] To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate. Kent.

Dom`i*cil"i*ar (?), n. A member of a household; a domestic.

Dom`i*cil"i*a*ry (?), a. [LL. domiciliarius.] Of or pertaining to a domicile, or the residence of a person or family.

The personal and domiciliary rights of the citizen scrupulously guarded.

Motley.

Domiciliary visit (Law), a visit to a private dwelling, particularly for searching it, under authority.

Dom`i*cil"i*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Domiciliated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Domiciliating (?).] [See Domicile.] 1. To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.

2. To domesticate. Pownall.

Dom`i*cil`i*a"tion (?), n. The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy. Milman.

Dom"i*cul`ture (?; 135), n. [L. domus house + E. culture. See 1st Dome.] The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc. [R.] R. Park.

Dom"i*fy (?), v. t. [L. domus + - fy: cf. F. domifier.] 1. (Astrol.) To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense. [Obs.]

2. To tame; to domesticate. [Obs.] Johnson.

||Dom"i*na (?), n. [L., lady. See Dame.] (O. Eng. Law) Lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right. Burrill.

{ Dom"i*nance (?), Dom"i*nan*cy (?), } n. Predominance; ascendency; authority.

Dom"i*nant (?), a. [L. dominans, -antis, p. pr. of dominari: cf. F. dominant. See Dominate.] 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 servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate over which the servitude extends being called the servient estate or tenement. Bouvier. Wharton's Law Dict. -- Dominant owner (Law), one who owns lands on which there is an easement owned by another.

Syn. -- Governing; ruling; controlling; prevailing; predominant; ascendant.

Dom"i*nant, n. (Mus.) The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.

Dominant chord (Mus.), the chord based upon the dominant.

Dom"i*nate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dominated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dominating.] [L. dominatus, p. p. of dominari to dominate, fr. dominus master, lord. See Dame, and cf. Domineer.] 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.

Dom"i*nate, v. i. To be dominant. Hallam.

Dom`i*na"tion (?), n. [F. domination, L. dominatio.] 1. The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or insolent sway.

In such a people, the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom.

Burke.

2. A ruling party; a party in power. [R.] Burke.

3. pl. A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen.

Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

Milton.

Dom"i*na*tive (?), a. [Cf. F. dominatif.] Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.

Dom"i*na`tor (?), n. [L.] A ruler or ruling power. "Sole dominator of Navarre." Shak.

Jupiter and Mars are dominators for this northwest part of the world.

Camden.

Dom"i*ne (?), n. [See Dominie.] 1. A name given to a pastor of the Reformed Church. The word is also applied locally in the United States, in colloquial speech, to any clergyman.

2. [From Sp. domine a schoolmaster.] (Zoöl.) A West Indian fish (Epinula magistralis), of the family Trichiuridæ. It is a long-bodied, voracious fish.

Dom`i*neer" (?), v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Domineered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Domineering.] [F. dominer, L. dominari: cf. OD. domineren to feast luxuriously. See Dominate, v. t.] To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents.

Go to the feast, revel and domineer.

Shak.

His wishes tend abroad to roam, And hers to domineer at home.

Prior.

Dom`i*neer"ing, a. Ruling arrogantly; overbearing.

A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate.

Blackw. Mag.

Syn. -- Haughty; overbearing; lordly. See Imperious. -- Dom`i*neer"ing*ly, adv.

Do*min"ic*al (?), a. [LL. dominicalis, for L. dominicus belonging to a master or lord (dominica dies the Lord's day), fr. dominus master or lord: cf. F. dominical. See Dame.] 1. Indicating, or pertaining to, the Lord's day, or Sunday.

2. Relating to, or given by, our Lord; as, the dominical (or Lord's) prayer. Howell.

Some words altered in the dominical Gospels.

Fuller.

Dominical altar (Eccl.), the high altar. -- Dominical letter, the letter which, in almanacs, denotes Sunday, or the Lord's day (dies Domini). The first seven letters of the alphabet are used for this purpose, the same letter standing for Sunday during a whole year (except in leap year, when the letter is changed at the end of February). After twenty-eight years the same letters return in the same order. The dominical letters go backwards one day every common year, and two every leap year; e. g., if the dominical letter of a common year be G, F will be the dominical letter for the next year. Called also Sunday letter. Cf. Solar cycle, under Cycle, n.

Do*min"ic*al, n. The Lord's day or Sunday; also, the Lord's prayer. [Obs.]

Do*min"i*can (?), a. [NL. Dominicanus, fr. Dominicus, Dominic, the founder: cf. F. Dominicain.] Of or pertaining to St. Dominic (Dominic de Guzman), or to the religious communities named from him.

Dominican nuns, an order of nuns founded by St. Dominic, and chiefly employed in teaching. -- Dominican tertiaries (the third order of St. Dominic). See Tertiary.

Do*min"i*can, n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins.

Do*min"i*cide (?), n. [L. dominus master + caedere to cut down, kill.] 1. The act of killing a master.

2. One who kills his master.

Dom"i*nie (?), n. [L. dominus master. See Don, Dame.] 1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Scot.]

This was Abel Sampson, commonly called, from occupation as a pedagogue, Dominie Sampson.

Sir W. Scott.

2. A clergyman. See Domine, 1. [Scot. & Colloq. U. S.]

Do*min"ion (?), n. [LL. dominio, equiv. to L. dominium. See Domain, Dungeon.] 1. Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.

I praised and honored him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion.

Dan. iv. 34.

To choose between dominion or slavery.

Jowett (Thucyd. ).

2. Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency.

Objects placed foremost ought . . . have dominion over things confused and transient.

Dryden.

3. That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions.

4. pl. A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3. Milton.

By him were all things created . . . whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers.

Col. i. 16.

Syn. -- Sovereignty; control; rule; authority; jurisdiction; government; territory; district; region.

Dom"i*no (?), n.; pl. Dominos or (esp. the pieces for a game) Dominoes (#). [F. domino, or It. dominò, or Sp. dominó, fr. L. dominus master. The domino was orig. a hood worn by the canons of a cathedral. See Don, Dame.] 1. A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice. Kersey.

2. A mourning veil formerly worn by women.

3. A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.

4. A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.

5. A person wearing a domino.

6. pl. A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played Hoyle.

7. One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played. Hoyle.

||Dom"i*nus (?), n.; pl. Domini (#). [L., master. See Dame.] Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor. Cowell.

Dom"i*ta*ble (?), a. [L. domitare to tame, fr. domare.] That can be tamed. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Do"mite (?), n. (Min.) A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de- Dôme in Auvergne, France, where it is found.

Don (dn), n. [Sp. don; akin to Pg. dom, It. donno; fr. L. dominus master. See Dame, and cf. Domine, Dominie, Domino, Dan, Dom.] 1. Sir; Mr; Signior; -- a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes.

Don is used in Italy, though not so much as in Spain. France talks of Dom Calmet, England of Dan Lydgate.

Oliphant.

2. A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities. [Univ. Cant] "The great dons of wit." Dryden.

Don, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Donned (dnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Donning.] [Do + on; -- opposed to doff. See Do, v. t., 7.] To put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with.

Should I don this robe and trouble you.

Shak.

At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn.

Emerson.

||Do"ña (?), n. [Sp. doña. See Duenna.] Lady; mistress; madam; - - a title of respect used in Spain, prefixed to the Christian name of a lady.

Do"na*ble (?), a. [L. donabilis, fr. donare to donate.] Capable of being donated or given. [R.]

Do"na*ry (?), n. [L. donarium, fr. donare.] A thing given to a sacred use. [R.] Burton.

Don"at (?), n. [From Donatus, a famous grammarian.] A grammar. [Obs.] [Written also donet.]

Don"a*ta*ry (?), n. See Donatory.

Do"nate (d"nt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Donated; p. pr. & vb. n. Donating.] [L. donatus, p. p. of donare to donate, fr. donum gift, fr. dare to give. See 2d Date.] To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.

Do*na"tion (?), n. [L. donatio; cf. F. donation.] 1. The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.

After donation there is an absolute change and alienation of the property of the thing given.

South.

2. That which is given as a present; that which is transferred to another gratuitously; a gift.

And some donation freely to estate On the bless'd lovers.

Shak.

3. (Law) The act or contract by which a person voluntarily transfers the title to a thing of which be is the owner, from himself to another, without 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.

Syn. -- Gift; present; benefaction; grant. See Gift.

Don"a*tism (?), n. [Cf. F. Donatisme.] (Eccl. Hist.) The tenets of the Donatists.

Don"a*tist (?), n. [LL. Donatista: cf. F. Donatiste.] (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Donatus, the leader of a body of North African schismatics and purists, who greatly disturbed the church in the 4th century. They claimed to be the true church.

Don`a*tis"tic (?), a. Pertaining to Donatism.

Don"a*tive (?), n. [L. donativum, fr. donare: cf. F. donatif. See Donate.] 1. A gift; a largess; a gratuity; a present. "The Romans were entertained with shows and donatives." Dryden.

2. (Eccl. Law) A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.

Don"a*tive, a. Vested or vesting by donation; as, a donative advowson. Blackstone.

||Do*na"tor (?), n. [L. Cf. Donor.] (Law) One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver.

Don"a*to*ry (?), n. (Scots Law) A donee of the crown; one the whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over.

Do"-naught` (?), n. [Do + naught.] A lazy, good-for-nothing fellow.

||Do"nax (?), n. [L., reed, also a sea fish, Gr. &?;.] (Bot.) A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo Donax), used for fishing rods, etc.

||Don*cel"la (?), n. [Sp., lit., a maid. Cf. Damsel.] (Zoöl.) A handsome fish of Florida and the West Indies (Platyglossus radiatus). The name is applied also to the ladyfish (Harpe rufa) of the same region.

Done (?), p. p. from Do, and formerly the infinitive. 1. Performed; executed; finished.

2. It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically.

Done brown, a phrase in cookery; applied figuratively to one who has been thoroughly deceived, cheated, or fooled. [Colloq.] -- Done for, tired out; used up; collapsed; destroyed; dead; killed. [Colloq.] -- Done up. (a) Wrapped up. (b) Worn out; exhausted. [Colloq.]

Done, a. [Prob. corrupted from OF. doné, F. donné, p. p. of OF. doner, F. donner, to give, issue, fr. L. donare to give. See Donate, and cf. Donee.] Given; executed; issued; made public; -- used chiefly in the clause giving the date of a proclamation or public act.

Do*nee" (?), n. [OF. doné, F. donné, p. p. See the preceding word.] 1. The person to whom a gift or donation is made.

2. (Law) Anciently, one to whom lands were given; in later use, one to whom lands and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a power is conferred for execution; -- sometimes called the appointor.

Don"et (?), n. Same as Donat. Piers Plowman.

Do"ni (?), n. [Tamil t&?;n.] (Naut.) A clumsy craft, having one mast with a long sail, used for trading purposes on the coasts of Coromandel and Ceylon. [Written also dhony, doney, and done.] Balfour.

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Do*nif"er*ous (d*nf"r*s), a. [L. donum gift + -ferous.] Bearing gifts. [R.]

Don"jon (dn"jn), n. [See Dungeon.] The chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. See Illust. of Castle.

Don"key (d"k), n.; pl. Donkeys (-kz). [Prob. dun, in allusion to the color of the animal + a dim. termination.] 1. An ass; or (less frequently) a mule.

2. A stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass.

Donkey engine, a small auxiliary engine not used for propelling, but for pumping water into the boilers, raising heavy weights, and like purposes. -- Donkey pump, a steam pump for feeding boilers, extinguishing fire, etc.; -- usually an auxiliary. -- Donkey's eye (Bot.), the large round seed of the Mucuna pruriens, a tropical leguminous plant.

Don"na (?), n. [It. donna, L. domina. See Don, Dame.] A lady; madam; mistress; -- the title given a lady in Italy.

Don"nat (?), n. [Corrupted from do- naught.] See Do-naught. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Don"nism (?), n. [Don, n., 2.] Self-importance; loftiness of carriage. [Cant, Eng. Universities]

Do"nor (?), n. [F. donneur, OF. daneor, fr. donner. See Donee, and cf. Donator.] 1. One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor.

2. (Law) One who grants an estate; in later use, one who confers a power; -- the opposite of donee. Kent.

Touching, the parties unto deeds and charters, we are to consider as well the donors and granters as the donees or grantees.

Spelman.

Do"-noth`ing (?), a. Doing nothing; inactive; idle; lazy; as, a do-nothing policy.

{ Do"-noth`ing*ism (?), Do"-noth`ing*ness (?), } n. Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. [Jocular] Carlyle. Miss Austen.

Don"ship (?), n. The quality or rank of a don, gentleman, or knight. Hudibras.

Don"zel (?), n. [Cf. It. donzello, Sp. doncel, OF. danzel. See Damsel, Don, n.] A young squire, or knight's attendant; a page. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Doo (?), n. (Zoöl.) A dove. [Scot.]

Doob" grass` (?). [Hind. d&?;b.] (Bot.) A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States. [Written also doub grass.]

Doo"dle (?), n. [Cf. Dawdle.] A trifler; a simple fellow.

Doo"dle*sack` (?), n. [Cf. G. dudelsack.] The Scotch bagpipe. [Prov. Eng.]

Doole (?), n. Sorrow; dole. [Obs.] Spenser.

Doo"ly (?), n.; pl. Doolies (#). [Skr. d&?;la.] A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin. [Written also doolee and doolie.] [East Indies]

Having provided doolies, or little bamboo chairs slung on four men's shoulders, in which I put my papers and boxes, we next morning commenced the ascent.

J. D. Hooker.

Doom (dm), n. [As. dm; akin to OS. dm, OHG. tuom, Dan. & Sw. dom, Icel. dmr, Goth. dms, Gr. qe`mis law; fr. the root of E. do, v. t. &radic;65. See Do, v. t., and cf. Deem, -dom.] 1. Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.

The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.

J. R. Green.

Now against himself he sounds this doom.

Shak.

2. That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.

Ere Hector meets his doom.

Pope.

And homely household task shall be her doom.

Dryden.

3. Ruin; death.

This is the day of doom for Bassianus.

Shak.

4. Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision. [Obs.]

And there he learned of things and haps to come, To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom.

Fairfax.

Syn. -- Sentence; condemnation; decree; fate; destiny; lot; ruin; destruction.

Doom, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doomed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dooming.] 1. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. [Obs.] Milton.

2. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death.

Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.

Dryden.

3. To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.

Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?

Shak.

4. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion. [New England] J. Pickering.

5. To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.

A man of genius . . . doomed to struggle with difficulties.

Macaulay.

Doom"age (?), n. A penalty or fine for neglect. [Local, New England]

Doom"ful (?), a. Full of condemnation or destructive power. [R.] "That doomful deluge." Drayton.

Doom" palm` (?). [Ar. daum, dm: cf. F. doume.] (Bot.) A species of palm tree (Hyphæne Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia. [Written also doum palm.]

Dooms"day` (?), n. [AS. d&?;mes dg. See Doom, and Day.] 1. A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death. "My body's doomsday." Shak.

2. The day of the final judgment.

I could not tell till doomsday.

Chaucer.

Doomsday Book. See Domesday Book.

Dooms"man, n. [Doom + man.] A judge; an umpire. [Obs.] Hampole.

Doom"ster (?), n. Same as Dempster. [Scot.]