Domify (v. t.) To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense.
Domify (v. t.) To tame; to domesticate.
Domina (n.) Lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right.
Dominance (n.) Alt. of Dominancy
Dominancy (n.) Predominance; ascendency; authority.
Dominant (a.) Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.
Dominant (n.) The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
Dominated (imp. & p. p.) of Dominate
Dominating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dominate
Dominate (v. t.) To predominate over; to rule; to govern.
Dominate (v. i.) To be dominant.
Domination (n.) The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or insolent sway.
Domination (n.) A ruling party; a party in power.
Domination (n.) A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen.
Dominative (a.) Governing; ruling; imperious.
Dominator (n.) A ruler or ruling power.
Domine (n.) 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.
Domine (n.) A West Indian fish (Epinula magistralis), of the family Trichiuridae. It is a long-bodied, voracious fish.
Domineered (imp. & p. p.) of Domineer
Domineering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Domineer
Domineer (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.
Domineering (a.) Ruling arrogantly; overbearing.
Dominical (a.) Indicating, or pertaining to, the Lord's day, or Sunday.
Dominical (a.) Relating to, or given by, our Lord; as, the dominical (or Lord's) prayer.
Dominical (n.) The Lord's day or Sunday; also, the Lord's prayer.
Dominican (a.) Of or pertaining to St. Dominic (Dominic de Guzman), or to the religions communities named from him.
Dominican (n.) 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.
Dominicide (n.) The act of killing a master.
Dominicide (n.) One who kills his master.
Dominie (n.) A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
Dominie (n.) A clergyman. See Domine, 1.
Dominion (n.) Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.
Dominion (n.) Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency.
Dominion (n.) 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.
Dominion (n.) A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3.
Dominos (pl. ) of Domino
Dominoes (pl. ) of Domino
Domino (n.) A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.
Domino (n.) A mourning veil formerly worn by women.
Domino (n.) 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.
Domino (n.) A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.
Domino (n.) A person wearing a domino.
Domino (n.) 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
Domino (n.) One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.
Domini (pl. ) of Dominus
Dominus (n.) Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor.
Domitable (a.) That can be tamed.
Domite (n.) A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de-Dome in Auvergne, France, where it is found.
Don (n.) Sir; Mr; Signior; -- a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes.
Don (n.) A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities.
Donned (imp. & p. p.) of Don
Donning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Don
Don (v. t.) To put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with.
Do–a (n.) Lady; mistress; madam; -- a title of respect used in Spain, prefixed to the Christian name of a lady.
Donable (a.) Capable of being donated or given.
Donary (n.) A thing given to a sacred use.
Donat (n.) A grammar.
Donatary (n.) See Donatory.
Donated (imp. & p. p.) of Donate
Donating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Donate
Donate (v. t.) To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.
Donation (n.) The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.
Donation (n.) That which is given as a present; that which is transferred to another gratuitously; a gift.
Donation (n.) 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.
Donatism (n.) The tenets of the Donatists.
Donatist (n.) 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.
Donatistic (a.) Pertaining to Donatism.
Donative (n.) A gift; a largess; a gratuity; a present.
Donative (n.) 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.
Donative (a.) Vested or vesting by donation; as, a donative advowson.
Donator (n.) One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver.
Donatory (n.) A donee of the crown; one the whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over.
Do-naught (n.) A lazy, good-for-nothing fellow.
Donax (n.) A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo Donax), used for fishing rods, etc.
Doncella (n.) 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.
Done (infinitive.) Performed; executed; finished.
Done (infinitive.) It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically.
Done (a.) Given; executed; issued; made public; -- used chiefly in the clause giving the date of a proclamation or public act.
Donee (n.) The person to whom a gift or donation is made.
Donee (n.) 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.
Donet (n.) Same as Donat. Piers Plowman.
Doni (n.) A clumsy craft, having one mast with a long sail, used for trading purposes on the coasts of Coromandel and Ceylon.
Doniferous (a.) Bearing gifts.
Donjon (n.) The chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. See Illust. of Castle.
Donkeys (pl. ) of Donkey
Donkey (n.) An ass; or (less frequently) a mule.
Donkey (n.) A stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass.
Donna (n.) A lady; madam; mistress; -- the title given a lady in Italy.
Donnat (n.) See Do-naught.
Donnism (n) Self-importance; loftiness of carriage.
Donor (n.) One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor.
Donor (n.) One who grants an estate; in later use, one who confers a power; -- the opposite of donee.
Do-nothing (a.) Doing nothing; inactive; idle; lazy; as, a do-nothing policy.
Do-nothingism (n.) Alt. of Do-nothingness
Do-nothingness (n.) Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness.
Donship (n.) The quality or rank of a don, gentleman, or knight.
Donzel (n.) A young squire, or knight's attendant; a page.
Doo (n.) A dove.
Doob grass () A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States.