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Home Dictionary Name: dome or doomDome, or Doom
Domboc. or Dombee [Sax.], dome-book....
Domestic relationship
Dome, or Doom [Sax.], a judgment, sentence, or decree...
Phooka or doom dev
Phooka or doom dev, 'phooka' or 'doom dev' includes any process of introducing air or any substance into the female organ of a milch animal with the object of drawing off from the animal any secretion of milk. [Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 (59 of 1960), s. 2(g)]...
Domed
Furnished with a dome shaped like a dome...
Doom
Doom [fr. dom, A.S., judgment; fr. deman, to deem or form a judgment], judicial sentence; judgment....
onion dome
A dome with a pointed top its width often extending beyond the width of the tower it covers a style of architecture characteristic of Russian Orthodox churches...
Dome-book
Dome-book [liber judicialis, Lat.], a book composed under the direction of Alfred, for the general use of the whole kingdom, containing the local customs of the several provinces of the kingdom. This book is said to have been extant so late as the reign of Edward IV., but is now lost....
Domesday, or domesday-book
Domesday, or domesday-book [liber judiciarius vel censualis Angli', Lat.], an ancient record made in the time of William the Conqueror, and now kept at the Record Office, consisting of two volumes, a greater and lesser; the greater containing a survey of all the lands in England except the counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland, Durham, and part of Lancashire, which it is said, were never surveyed; and excepting Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, which three last are comprehended in the lesser volume. There is also a third book, which differs from the others in form more than in matter, made by command of the same king. And there is a fourth book called Domesday, which is only abridgement of the others. The question whether lands are ancient demesne or not is to be decided by the Domesday of William I., whence there is no appeal. The addition of day to this Dome-book was not meant for an allusion to the final day of judgment, as most persons have conceived, but was to strengthen...
Brachydome
A dome parallel to the shorter lateral axis See Dome...
Macrodome
A dome parallel to the longer lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal See Dome n 4...
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