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a. [ Cf. F. abdominal. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the abdominal regions, muscles, cavity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Having abdominal fins; belonging to the Abdominales; as, abdominal fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Abdominal ring (Anat.), a fancied ringlike opening on each side of the abdomen, external and superior to the pubes; -- called also inguinal ring. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., masc. pl. ] (Zool.) A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., neut. pl. ] (Zool.) A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. abdomen + Gr. skopei^n to examine. ] (Med.) Examination of the abdomen by means of a laparoscope to detect abdominal diseases. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

a. Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan,
Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 distension of the stomach area due to overweight.
Syn. -- paunchiness [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖ [ L., in the year of [ our ] Lord [ Jesus Christ ]; usually abbrev. a. d. ] In the year of the Christian era; as, a. d. 1887. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. one of the units in a condominium{ 2 }.
Syn. -- condo. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a complex of dwelling units (as an apartment house) in which each unit is individually owned (as contrasted with rented). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖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.

{ } n. Predominance; ascendency; authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dominant estate or
Dominant 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Governing; ruling; controlling; prevailing; predominant; ascendant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mus.) The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dominant chord (Mus.), the chord based upon the dominant. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

We everywhere meet with Slavonian nations either dominant or dominated. W. Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be dominant. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. controlled or ruled by superior authority or power.
Syn. -- dominated by, under the thumb of(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. controlled by one's wife; -- of men.
Syn. -- henpecked. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. exercising influence or control. Opposite of subordinate.
Syn. -- ascendant, ascendent, prestigious, dominant. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. high enough to provide a clear view of the surrounding area; -- of a height or viewpoint.
Syn. -- commanding, overlooking. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. domination, L. dominatio. ] 1. The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or insolent sway. [ 1913 Webster ]

In such a people, the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A ruling party; a party in power. [ R. ] Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. dominatif. ] Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] A ruler or ruling power. “Sole dominator of Navarre.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jupiter and Mars are dominators for this northwest part of the world. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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.
Syn. -- dominus, dominie. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ From Sp. domine a schoolmaster. ] (Zool.) A West Indian fish (Epinula magistralis), of the family Trichiuridæ. It is a long-bodied, voracious fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Go to the feast, revel and domineer. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

His wishes tend abroad to roam,
And hers to domineer at home. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ruling arrogantly; overbearing. [ 1913 Webster ]

A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate. Blackw. Mag.

Syn. -- Haughty; overbearing; lordly. See Imperious. -- Dom`i*neer"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Relating to, or given by, our Lord; as, the dominical (or Lord's) prayer. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some words altered in the dominical Gospels. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The Lord's day or Sunday; also, the Lord's prayer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dominus master + caedere to cut down, kill. ] 1. The act of killing a master. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who kills his master. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.), an American breed of chicken having barred gray plumage raised for meat and brown eggs.
Syn. -- Dominique. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. dominus master. See Don, Dame. ] 1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This was Abel Sampson, commonly called, from occupation as a pedagogue, Dominie Sampson. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A clergyman. See Domine, 1. [ Scot. & Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I praised and honored him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion. Dan. iv. 34. [ 1913 Webster ]

To choose between dominion or slavery. Jowett (Thucyd. ). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency. [ 1913 Webster ]

Objects placed foremost ought . . . have dominion over things confused and transient. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

. In Canada, a legal holiday, July lst, being the anniversary of the proclamation of the formation of the Dominion in 1867. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.), an American breed of chicken having barred gray plumage raised for meat and brown eggs.
Syn. -- Dominick. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Dominos or plw>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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mourning veil formerly worn by women. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A person wearing a domino. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

fall like dominoes. To fall sequentially, as when one object in a line, by falling against the next object, causes it in turn to fall, and that second object causes a third to fall, etc.; the process can be repeated an indefinite number of times. The phrase is derived from an entertainment using dominoes arranged in a row, each standing on edge and therefore easily knocked over; when the first is made to fall against the next, it starts a sequence which ends when all have fallen. For amusement, people have arranged such sequences involving thousands of dominoes, arrayed in fanciful patterns.

. A political theory current in the 1960's, according to which the conversion of one country in South Asia to communism will start a sequential process causing all Asian countries to convert to Communism. The apparent assumption was that an Asian country politically aligned with the West was as politically unstable as a domino standing on edge. It was used by some as a justification for American involvement in the Vietnam war, 1964-1972. [ PJC ]

. A game of cards in which the suits are played in sequence, beginning with a 5 or 9, the player who gets rid of his cards first being the winner. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖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. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Virginia; -- a name of uncertain origin, perh. from the old designation of the colony as “the Colony and Dominion of Virginia.” [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. prédominance. ] 1. The quality or state of being predominant; superiority; ascendency; prevalence; predomination. [ 1913 Webster ]

The predominance of conscience over interest. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astrol.) The superior influence of a planet. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Predominance. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. prédominant. See Predominante. ] Having the ascendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those help . . . were predominant in the king's mind. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Foul subordination is predominant. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Prevalent; superior; prevailing; ascendant; ruling; reigning; controlling; overruling. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a predominant manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Predominated p. pr. & vb. n. Predominating. ] [ Pref. pre- + dominate: cf. F. prédominer. ] To be superior in number, strength, influence, or authority; to have controlling power or influence; to prevail; to rule; to have the mastery; as, love predominated in her heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Certain ] rays may predominate over the rest. Sir. I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To rule over; to overpower. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. prédomination. ] The act or state of predominating; ascendency; predominance. W. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mus.) The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; -- so called as being under the dominant. [ 1913 Webster ]