Domboc 
Domboc (AS. pron. dom'bok), . [AS., lit. 
'doom-book,' i. e., book of lawn : *< ilnniii und 
honk.] The book of laws, now lost, compiled 
under tlio direction of King Alfred of England, 
iinil containing the local ciisloins of the several 
provinces of Hie kingdom. Also rtoiiii'biMik. 
These would prohahly include the -Ian-lard work of 
Alfred, known a- tlir />i.m/*"c, and those counterparts of 
charters which served tin- purpose of :i primitive enroll- 
nicnl. Mln nirum. Kit. 3083, p. 70H. 
dome 1 (dom), ii. [< OF. <liiif, also spelled, er 
roneously, ili>.*ir, a, tmvii-hoiiso, state-house, a 
dome, cupola, P. dtiun; u cupola, dome, = It. 
iliiiHiiii. a dome, enpola, i-nt hedral, = OS. dom 
= OFries. dom = OHG. dom, doom, a house, 
MHG. duoiii, tnom, a temple, a church, = G. 
Ilium (obs.), dom, a cathedral (in comp. dnin- 
kirche, whence the accom. Icel. domkirUa = 
8w. tlomkyrka = Dan. domkirke, a cathedral), 
< L. damns (ML. also prob. damns), a house, 
ML. dornux Dei or simply domits, or with a 
saint's name attached, o. g., domus flancti Petri, 
a church, cathedral, often roofed with a cupola, 
< (Jr. M/iof, a house, a temple, < M/teiv, build, 
akin to E. timber, q. v. The above forms wero 
partly mixed with ML. doma, a house, roof, 
cupola, < LL. doma, ahouse, roof. < Gr. oufia(T-), 
a house, a temple, < oeftetv, build.] 1. A build- 
ing; ahouse; especially, a stately building; a 
great hall ; a church or temple. [Poetical.] 
Approach the dome, the social banquet share. Pope. 
The aspiring youtli that Ii red the Ephesian dome 
Outlives in fame the pions fool that raised it. 
r, Rich. III. (altered), iii. 1. 
In Xanadu did Kuhla Khan 
A stately pleasure-dome decree. 
Coleridge, Kuhla Khan. 
2. In arch., a cupola; a vault upon a plan cir- 
cular or nearly so ; a hemispherical or approx- 
imately hemispherical coving of a building. 
Dome of Briinnellcschi (1420), Santa Maria del Fiore. Florence. 
This restricted application of the term arose from the 
fact that the churches of Italy were almost universally 
huilt with a cupola at the Intersection of the nave and the 
transept, or over the sanctuary. In some instances dome 
may refer equally well to the church or cathedral, or to 
the cu|>ola which is its most conspicuous feature. 
At the south side of the eonrt there is a fine mosque 
covered with a large <I<>HH-. 
/'"i-i.-J-c, Description of the East, II. i. 122. 
Life, like a dome of ninny-coloured glass, 
Stains the white radiance of eternity. 
Shelley, Adonais, Iii 
The liaiid that rounded Peter's dome 
And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, 
Wrought in a sad sincerity. 
Emerton, The Prohlem. 
A true Gothic dome grand arches leading up to a 
grander ilnnii- within, concentric story above story with 
ont, rising with forests of pinnacles clustered around the 
tall central spire. 
C. K. Xnrliin, Travel and Study in Italy, p. 311. 
3. Anything shaped like a cupola, (a) A hcmi- 
spherical arch. (>>) T!ie steam-chamber of a locomotive. 
M In metal., the tipper part of a furnace, resembling a 
hollow hemisphere or small dome, (d) The raised roof or 
monitor-roof of a railroad-car of American pattern, serv- 
ini; for lighting and ventilation, or a similar feature over 
the chief ealiin or saloon of some <teanici -. 
4. The dome-shaped part of the roof of an astro- 
nomical observatory, placed over a telescope. 
It is usually hemispherical, and is so arranged that an> 
desired part of tile heavens may lie disclose,! to the in- 
strument. In some forms this is accomplished by means 
of a continuous series of shutters; in others, a complete 
longitudinal section of the dome, from apex to base, can 
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\te- removed or thrown open as far aft desired, and ft mecha- 
nism is provided to n Mil\ e the dome Mi that the a pi i t in 
can In- inaile to rommanil any par! of tin heawn^. 
5. In crystal., a form whose planes intersect, 
the vertical axis, but are parallel to one of the 
lateral axes : so called because it has above or 
lidnw a horizontal edge like the roof of a 
house; also, one of the faces of such a form. 
In the orthornombic system, a dome, if parallel to the 
longer lateral axis, is a macrodome; if parallel to the 
shorter lateral axis, a lirarhiidimif. In the monoclinic sys- 
tem a dome is an wtitodonM or i-liu"<linii' according as it 
is patalli 1 In that lateral axis which is respectively per- 
pendicular or oblique to the vertical axis. Floating 
dome, a form of rotating astronomical dome floating In 
an annular tank filled with a fluid, in which the base of 
the dome Is plunged. 
dome 1 (dom), v. t.: pret. and pp. domed, ppr. 
i/iiniiiif/. [< dome'-, n.] To furnish or cover 
with a dome ; give the shape of a dome to. 
Once more the Heavenly Power 
Makes all things new, 
And domes the red-plough 'd hills 
With loving blue. Tennyson, Early Kprlng. 
So far as I know, all the domed buildings erected by the 
Romans tip to the time of Constantine, and indeed long 
afterwards, were circular in the interior. 
J. Ferytason, Hist. Arch., I. 347. 
The ceiling is divided Into square domed panels each 
containing medallions and enrichment finished In citrine, 
cream, light blue, anil a profusion of gold. 
Keek's Jour. Dee. Art, II. 346. 
dome' 2 t, and v. An obsolete form of doom. 
Domebook, . Same as Domboc. 
dome-cover (dom'kuv'er), n. In a locomotive, 
the cover of copper or brass which incloses the 
dome to prevent radiation of heat. See dome 1 , 
n., 3 (6). 
dome-head (dom'hed), n. The top of the dome 
of a tank-car. 
domel (do'mel), a. A dialectal form of dumbh: 1 . 
Grose. 
doment (do'ment), . [< do 1 + -ment.~\ Per- 
formance; doings. [Colloq.] 
A public hall, or any such great formal do-ment. 
Jthoda Brourjhton, Joan. 
domesdayt, domesmant, etc. Obsolete forms 
of doomsday, etc. 
domestic (do-mes'tik), a. andw. [Early mod. E. 
also domestic!?, domestike ; < OF. domestique, ver- 
nacularly domesflie, domcche, domeichc, dontcx- 
gue, etc., F. domestique = Pr. dontcsguc, domet- 
ftte, domestic, domesteguc = Sp. dome'stico = Pf*. 
t. domestico, < L. domcsticus, belonging to the 
household, < domuK, house, household: see 
dome.} I. a. 1. Relating or belonging to the 
home or household, or to household affairs; 
pertaining to one's place of residence, or to the 
affairs which concern it, or used in the conduct 
of such affairs: as, domestic concerns; domes- 
tic life; domestic duties; domestic servants ; do- 
mestic animals. 
Who addeth that they lined not without men, hut that 
they put the men to domextike drudgeries, and exercised 
the women in the field. fitrchax, Pilgrimage, p. 31*8. 
Donmtie happiness, thou only bliss 
Of Paradise that has surviv'd the fall ' 
Cowper, Task, Hi. 41. 
In these simple vales 
The natural feeling of equality 
Is by (loitictttic service urtimpalred. 
Wordsworth, Excursion, vi. 
2. Attached to the occupations of the home or 
the family ; pertaining to home life, or to house- 
hold affairs or interests : as, a domestic man or 
woman. 
Well, yon see, master Premium, what a domestic, char- 
acter 1 am ; here I sit of an evening surrounded by my 
family. Sheridan, School for .Scandal, iv. 1. 
His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his 
iliniif*l/<- feelings were unusually strong. 
Macartlay, Bunyan. 
The ilomextic man, who loves no music so well as his 
kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as 
they bum on the hearth, has solaces which others never 
dream of. Kmerson, Essays, Istser., p. 206. 
3. Pertaining to a nation considered as a fam- 
ily, or to one's own country; internal; not for- 
eign: as, domestic dissensions; domestic goods ; 
domestic trade. 
to here mayc ye see this beast to be no stranger, borne 
farr off, for Paul saith, he sitteth in the temple of Owl ; 
he is therefore a domestyc eniinye. 
Jotte, Expos, of Daniel, vii. 
If there be any proposition universally true in ]Ni]itics. 
it is this, that foreign attachments are the fruit of <foir- 
tit- misrule. Macaulay, Disabilities of Jews. 
Dmnestic peace is maintained without the aid of a mili- 
tary cstal.lisl lit. Bancroft, Hist. U. 8., I., Ink 
4. Home-made: an epithet applied to certain 
cotton cloths of American manufacture. See 
n., s. 
domesticate 
A stack of unldeaclied ti<,ni>-*ii<- cloth for a bolster. 
K. KH:I/-""':II, 'I In- id, iniy, \ \\\. in. 
Domestic architecture, (a) The art of designing ami 
eventing buildings for domestic or priviite use, I 
ta-es. fat in hoii-c.-, villas, mansions, etc. (//) Collectively, 
lie i\les or methods pursued iii building for 'i- 
pin poses; the character or i(,ialif \ ol <|I<HH .-I n lnnl'iin- 
a>, the domestic architecture of England as compared \\ jth 
that of I'Yancc. Domestic commerce, domestic cor- 
poration. See the nouns. -Domestic economy, the 
iiiaiincr in which matters relating to the family are con- 
ducted; specifically, the economical management of house- 
hold affairs; the art of managing domestic atfairs in the 
i.i -t ami thriftiest manner. Domestic medicine, mcdi 
cine as practised by unprofessional persons in their own 
families.- Domestic motor. *ce m,,iar. 
II. . 1. A household servant; a servant re- 
siding with a family. 
The master labours, and leads an anxious life, to secure 
plenty and ease to the domestic*. 
Knox, Duty of Servants, Sermons, xvf. 
Many a gallant gay domestic 
Bows before him at the door. 
Tenni/son, Lord of Burleigh. 
2f. A native of a country. 
If he were a forreiner for birth, yet he was a thunextick 
In heart /?/>. Hall, flood f'entiirlon. 
3f. An inmate of a house. 
The great Basil mentions a certain art, of drawing 
many doves, by anointing the wings of a few with a fra- 
grant ointment, and so sending them abroad, that by the 
fragrancy of the ointment they may allure others unto 
the house whereof they are themselves the domeftielu. 
C. Mather, Mag. Chris., Iv., Int. 
4f. A domicile ; a home. 
I found myself so unflt for courts, that I was resolved 
to pass the rest of my life in my own domettiek. 
Sir H". Temple, Memoirs, p. 345. 
5. })l. Home-made cotton cloths, either bleached 
or unbleached, of the grades in common use, 
and neither printed nor dyed. [U. S.] 
domestical (do-mes'ti-kal), rt. and . [< ME. 
domcsticall ; < 'domestic -(-'-/.] I. . If. Same 
as domentic. 
Abandoned and forsaken, yea even of his own domexti- 
cal servants. 
Quoted in Raltiyh't Hist. World, Prcf., p. 34. 
The original, proceedings and successe of the Northren 
tlomextical and forren trades and tramqlles of this Isle of 
l>ritain. llakliiyt't* Vintages, I. 124. 
2. Of a home-like character ; of local origin. 
[Rare.] 
The Catholic Church . . . has made in fourteen cen- 
turies (in England] a massive system, . . . toncodonwv- 
liral and stately. Kmermn, English Traits. 
H.t n. 1. A family ; a household. 
Amongest whom, ther were many his pareutcs A tlo- 
?m'sfK'a/xorhou8holdes. Xicoll*, tr. of Thncydides, fol. 41. 
2. A domestic ; a servant. fSoiithirell. 
domestically (do-mes'ti-kal-i), (idr>. 1. In re- 
lation to domestic affairs. 
As the conception of life in the Hebrew heaven elab- 
orated, . . . the ascribed arrangementsdid not, like those 
of the Greeks, parallel terrestrial arrangements domesti. 
rally. U. Spencer, Prin. of Soclol., S 10r>. 
Her brother's life struck her as hare, nngaruished, help- 
less, socially and dowe*ticall\i speaking. 
//. James, Jr., Harper's Mag., I.XXVII. DS. 
2. Privately ; as one of a family, 
domesticantt (do-mes'ti-kant), . [< ML. do- 
mestican(t-)x, ppr. of domcsticare : see dontexti- 
rnte.] Forming part of the same family. 
The power . . . was virtually residing and domrittirnnl 
lit the plurality of his assessors. 
Sir K. Derinn, Speeches, p. 71. 
domesticate (do-mes'ti-kat), . ; pret. and pp. 
domesticated, ppr. domesticating. [< LL. domr.t- 
ticatus, p. a., prop. pp. of (ML.) dome/iticare (> 
It. domesticare = Pg. Sp. domesticar = Pr. dn- 
mcsgar, domesjar = F. domestiqnrr, OF. domeg- 
cher), live in a family, trans, tame, < L. domcs- 
tifus, domestic .: see domestic.'] I. irons. 1. To 
make domestic ; accustom to remain much at 
home: as, to domesticate one's self . 2. To make 
an inmate of a household ; associate in family 
life ; hence, to make intimate or cause to be- 
come familiar, as if at home. 
Having the entry into your house, and heing half do. 
meHticated by their situation. 
Burte, To a Member of tin National Assembly. 
1 would not be dome*tirated all my days with a person 
of very superior capacity to my own. 
Lamb, Old and New Schoolmaster. 
To marry is to domesticate the Recording Angel. 
R. L. Stevenson, Virginibtls Puerlsqite, il. 
Tills proposition I beg the reader to domesticate in the 
most intimate and familiar part of his knowledge. 
\\-,-ft in in*lcr lite., CXXVIII. 748. 
If we dilate in beholding the llreek energy, the Roman 
pride, it is that we are already domc*ticutini the same 
sentiment. Emerson, Essays, 1st scr., p. 234. 
