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.

A massive mineral of tin-white or steel-gray color, an arsenide of copper.

Relating to, or shaped like, a dome.

To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate.

A member of a household; a domestic.

To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.

The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy.

Of or pertaining to a domicile, or the residence of a person or family.

The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc.

To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense.

Lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right.

Predominance; ascendency; authority.

The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.

To be dominant.

controlled or ruled by superior authority or power.

exercising influence or control. Opposite of subordinate.

The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or insolent sway.

Governing; ruling; imperious.

A ruler or ruling power.

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.

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.

Ruling arrogantly; overbearing.

The Lord's day or Sunday; also, the Lord's prayer.

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.

The act of killing a master.

an American breed of chicken having barred gray plumage raised for meat and brown eggs.

A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.

Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.

an American breed of chicken having barred gray plumage raised for meat and brown eggs.

A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.

Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor.

That can be tamed.

A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de-D/me in Auvergne, France, where it is found.

To put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with.

Lady; mistress; madam; -- a title of respect used in Spain, prefixed to the Christian name of a lady.

Capable of being donated or given.

the Teutonic god of thunder; counterpart of Norse Thor.

A thing given to a sacred use.

A grammar.

See Donatory.

To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.

given freely especially to a cause or fund; as, the donated van made their meal-on-wheels venture possible.

The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.

The tenets of the Donatists.

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.

Pertaining to Donatism.

Vested or vesting by donation; as, a donative advowson.

One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver.

A donee of the crown; one the whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over.

A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo Donax), used for fishing rods, etc.

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.

Given; executed; issued; made public; -- used chiefly in the clause giving the date of a proclamation or public act.

The person to whom a gift or donation is made.

Same as Donat. Piers Plowman.

A government of Upper Egypt.

A clumsy craft, having one mast with a long sail, used for trading purposes on the coasts of Coromandel and Ceylon.

Bearing gifts.

The chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. See Illust. of Castle.

a Mexican plant (Sedum morganianum) bearing small rose-colored flowers; called also burro's tail, horse's tail, and lamb's tail.

a very long time; ages.

hard menial routine work.

A lady; madam; mistress; -- the title given a lady in Italy.

See Do-naught.

Lit., given; hence, in a literary work, as a drama or tale, that which is assumed as to characters, situation, etc., as a basis for the plot or story.

of or pertaining to John Donne.

like a university don; marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning, especially its trivial aspects.

Self-importance; loftiness of carriage.

One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor. Inverse of recipient.

The quality or rank of a don, gentleman, or knight.

A young squire, or knight's attendant; a page.

A dove.

A trifler; a simple fellow.

The Scotch bagpipe.

a person who is stupid or inept; -- used contemptuously.

Any object, usually a tool or other device, whose name is forgotten, or not known.

Sorrow; dole.

A kind of litter suspended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin.

To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.

A penalty or fine for neglect.

Full of condemnation or destructive power.

A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death.

A judge; an umpire.

Same as Dempster.

A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.

An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.

direct without intermediate changes of vehicle; -- of e.g. journeys or deliveries; as, the limousine offers direct door-to-door service.

a bell or other sounding device, actuated by a push button at an outer door; the push button activating the bell; alos, the ringing of such a bell; as, I was in the shower and didn't hear the doorbell.

The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.

The jamb or sidepiece of a door.

A Hindoo divinity, the consort of Siva, represented with ten arms.

The frame of a door.

One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.

a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door, which may be swung by hand against the door to make a loud knocking sound.

Without a door.

a lock on an exterior door.

someone who guards the entrance to a building.

a mat placed outside and exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering.

The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, /As dead as a doornail./

A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.

The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway.

The sill or threshold of a door.

Entrance or place of a door.

The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.

The stone forming a threshold.

The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door; any object used to stop open doors from moving.

same as doorstop.

The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house.

A dip; a low courtesy.

a foreign substance added to a material to alter its properties; -- a process used. e.g., in making semiconductors from pure silicon in the manufacture of semiconductor chips and integrated circuits.

To treat or affect with dope; as, to dope nitroglycerin; To give stupefying drugs to; to drug. To administer a stimulant to (a horse) to increase his speed. It is a serious offense against the laws of racing.

A chart of previous performances, etc., of race horses; a racing form.

A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker.

An Anabaptist or Baptist.

A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.

stupid; as, a dopy kid.

A warrant. See Docket.

To make a fool of; to deceive.