Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 86
Dollar (n.) The value of a dollar; the unit of currency, differing in value in different countries, commonly employed in the United States and a number of other countries, including Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, parts of the Carribbean, Liberia, and several others.
Chop dollar. See under 9th Chop.
Dollar fish (Zool.), A fish of the United States coast ({Stromateus triacanthus), having a flat, roundish form and a bright silvery luster; -- called also butterfish, and Lafayette. See Butterfish.
Trade dollar, A silver coin formerly made at the United States mint, intended for export, and not legal tender at home. It contained 378 grains of silver and 42 grains of alloy.
Dollar (n.) The basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents.
Dollar (n.) A piece of paper money worth one dollar [syn: dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, clam].
Dollar (n.) A United States coin worth one dollar; "the dollar coin has never been popular in the United States."
Dollar (n.) A symbol of commercialism or greed; "he worships the almighty dollar"; "the dollar sign means little to him" [syn: dollar, dollar mark, dollar sign].
Dollar
$
"$", Numeric character reference: "$", Common names: ITU-T: dollar sign. Rare: currency symbol; buck; cash; string; escape (when used as the echo of ASCII ESC); ding; cache; INTERCAL: big money.
Well-known uses of the dollar symbol in computing include as a prefix on the names of string variables in BASIC, shell and related languages like Perl. In shell languages it is also used in positional parameters so "$1" is the first parameter to a shell script, "$2" the second, etc. In a regular expression, $ matches the end of the string. (2015-01-24)
Dollar, () money. A silver coin of the United States of the value of one hundred cents, or tenth part of an eagle.
Dollar, () It weighs four hundred and twelve and a half grains. Of one thousand parts, nine hundred are of pure silver and one hundred of alloy. Act of January 18, 1837, ss. 8 & 9, 4 Sharsw. Cont. of Story's L. U. S. 2523, 4; Wright, R. 162.
Dollar, () In all computations at the custom-house, the specie dollar of Sweden and Norway shall be estimated at one hundred and six cents. The specie dollar of Denmark, at one hundred and five cents. Act of May 22, 1846.
Dollardee (n.) (Zool.) A species of sunfish ({Lepomis pallidus), common in the United States; -- called also blue sunfish, and copper-nosed bream.
Dollman (n.) See Dolman.
Dollies (n. pl. ) of Dolly.
Dolly (n.) (Mining) A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.
Dolly (n.) (Mach.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet. -- Knight.
Dolly (n.) In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.
Dolly (n.) A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.
Dolly (n.) A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc.
Dolly (n.) A child's mane for a doll.
Dolly shop, A shop where rags, old junk, etc., are bought and sold; usually, in fact, an unlicensed pawnbroker's shop, formerly distinguished by the sign of a black doll. [England]
Dolly (n.) Conveyance consisting of a wheeled support on which a camera can be mounted.
Dolly (n.) Conveyance consisting of a wheeled platform for moving heavy objects.
Dolly (n.) A small replica of a person; used as a toy [syn: doll, dolly].
Dolly Varden () A character in Dickens's novel "Barnaby Rudge," a beautiful, lively, and coquettish girl who wore a cherry-colored mantle and cherry-colored ribbons.
Dolly Varden () A style of light, bright-figured dress goods for women; also, a style of dress.
Dolly Varden trout (Zool.), A trout of northwest America; -- called also bull trout, malma, and red-spotted trout. See Malma.
Dolman (n.) A long robe or outer garment, with long sleeves, worn by the Turks. [Written also doliman.]
Dolman (n.) A woman's cloak with capelike pieces instead of sleeves.
Dolman (n.) The uniform jacket of many European hussar regiments, worn like a cloak, fastened with a cord or chain, and with sleeves hanging loose.
Dolman (n.) A hussar's jacket worn over the shoulders [syn: dolman, dolman jacket].
Dolman (n.) A woman's cloak with dolman sleeves.
Dolman (n.) A cloak of a peculiar fashion worn by women.
Compare: Kistvaen
Kistvaen (n.) (Archaeol.) A Celtic monument, commonly known as a dolmen.
Dolmen (n.) A cromlech. See Cromlech. [Written also tolmen.]
Dolmen (n.) A prehistoric megalithic tomb typically having two large upright stones and a capstone [syn: dolmen, cromlech, portal tomb].
Dolomite (n.) (Geol. & Min.) A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive beds as a compact limestone, often crystalline granular, either white or clouded. It includes much of the common white marble. Also called bitter spar.
Dolomite (n.) A kind of sedimentary rock resembling marble or limestone but rich in magnesium carbonate.
Dolomite (n.) A light colored mineral consisting of calcium magnesium carbonate; a source of magnesium; used as a ceramic and as fertilizer [syn: dolomite, bitter spar].
Dolomitic (a.) Pertaining to dolomite.
Dolomitic (a.) Relating to or consisting of dolomite.
Dolomize (v. t.) To convert into dolomite. -- Dol`o*mi*za"tion, n.
Dolor (n.) Pain; grief; distress; anguish. [Written also dolour.] [Poetic]
Of death and dolor telling sad tidings. -- Spenser.
Dolor (n.) (Poetry) Painful grief [syn: dolor, dolour].
Doloriferous (a.) Producing pain. -- Whitaker. Dolorific
Dolorific (a.) Alt. of Dolorifical.
Dolorifical (a.) Causing pain or grief. -- Arbuthnot.
Doloroso (a. & adv.) [It.] (Mus.) Plaintive; pathetic; -- used adverbially as a musical direction.
Dolorous (a.) Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses.
You take me in too dolorous a sense; I spake to you for your comfort. -- Shak.
Dolorous (a.) Occasioning pain or grief; painful.
Their dispatch is quick, and less dolorous than the paw of the bear or teeth of the lion. -- Dr. H. More. -- Dol"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Dol"or*ous*ness, n.
Dolorous (a.) Showing sorrow [syn: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping].
Dolorous (a.) Causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief.
Dolphin (n.) 【動】海豚 [C]；【魚】鯕鰍 [C] (Zool.) A cetacean of the genus {Delphinus} and allied genera (esp. {Delphinus delphis}); the true dolphin.
Note: The dolphin of the ancients ({Delphinus delphis}) is common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, and attains a length of from six to eight feet.
Dolphin (n.) (Zool.) The {Coryph[ae]na hippuris}, a fish of about five feet in length, celebrated for its surprising changes of color when dying. It is the fish commonly known as the dolphin. The term is also applied to the related {Coryphaena equisetis}. Called also {dolphinfish} and (especially in Hawaii) {mahimahi}. See also {dolphinfish} and {Coryph[ae]noid}.
Syn: dolphinfish, mahimahi.
Dolphin (n.) (Gr. Antiq.) A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel.
Dolphin (n.) (Natu.) A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.
Dolphin (n.) (Natu.) A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables.
Dolphin (n.) (Natu.) A mooring post on a wharf or beach.
Dolphin (n.) (Natu.) A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale.
Dolphin (n.) (Gun.) In old ordnance, one of the handles above the trunnions by which the gun was lifted.
Dolphin (n.) (Astron.) A small constellation between Aquila and Pegasus. See {Delphinus}, n., 2.
Dolphin fly (Zool.), The black, bean, or collier, Aphis ({Aphis fable), destructive to beans.
Dolphin striker (Naut.), A short vertical spar under the bowsprit.
Dolphin (n.) Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) [syn: {dolphinfish}, {dolphin}, {mahimahi}].
Dolphin (n.) Any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises.
Dolphinet (n.) A female dolphin. [R.] -- Spenser.
Dolt (n.) A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.
This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt. -- Drayton.
Dolt (v. i.) To behave foolishly. [Obs.]
Dolt (n.) A person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!" [syn: stupid, stupid person, stupe, dullard, dolt, pudding head, pudden-head, poor fish, pillock].
Doltish (a.) Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown. -- Dolt"ish*ly, adv. -- Dolt"ish*ness, n.
Doltish (a.) Heavy and dull and stupid [syn: cloddish, doltish].
Dolus (n.) (Law) Evil intent, embracing both malice and fraud. See Culpa. -- Wharton.
Dolus, () civil law. A fraudulent address or trick used to deceive some one; a fraud. Dig. 4, 3, 1; Code, 2, 21.
Dolus, () Dolus differs from fault in this, that the latter proceeds from an error of the understanding; while to constitute the former there must be a will or intention to do wrong. Wolff, Inst. Sec. 17.
Dolven (p. p.) of Delve. [Obs.] -- Rom. of R.
-dom () A suffix denoting.
-dom () Jurisdiction or property and jurisdiction, dominion, as in kingdom earldom.
-dom () State, condition, or quality of being, as in wisdom, freedom.
Note: It is from the same root as doom meaning authority and judgment. ?. See Doom.
Dom (n.) A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders. See Don, and Dan.
Dom (n.) In Portugal and Brazil, the title given to a member of the higher classes.
DOM, () Disk On Module.
DOM, () Document Object Model (MS, Java).
DOM, () Document Object Module (HTML, XML, API).
Document Object Model
DOM
A W3C specification for application program interfaces for accessing the content of HTML and XML documents. (1999-12-14)
Domable (a.) Capable of being tamed; tamable.
Domableness (n.) Tamableness.
Domage (n.) Damage; hurt. [Obs.] -- Chapman.
Domage (n.) Subjugation. [Obs.] -- Hobbes.
Domain (n.) Dominion; empire; authority.
Domain (n.) The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively.
The domain of authentic history. -- E. Everett.
The domain over which the poetic spirit ranges. -- J. C. Shairp.
Domain (n.) Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne. --Shenstone.
Domain (n.) (Law) Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership.
Domain (n.) (Math.) The set of values which the independent variable of a function may take. Contrasted to range, which is the set of values taken by the dependent variable.
Domain (n.) (Math.) A connected set of points, also called a region.
Domain (n.) (Physics) a region within a ferromagnetic material, composed of a number of atoms whose magnetic poles are pointed in the same direction, and which may move together in a coordinated manner when disturbed, as by heating.
The direction of polarity of adjacent domains may be different, but may be aligned by a strong external magnetic field.
Domain (n.) (Computers) an address within the internet computer network, which may be a single computer, a network of computers, or one of a number of accounts on a multiuser computer.
The domain specifies the location (host computer) to which communications on the internet are directed. Each domain has a corresponding 32-bit number usually represented by four numbers separated by periods, as 128.32.282.56. Each domain may also have an alphabetical name, usually composed of a name plus an extension separated by a period, as worldsoul.org; the alphabetical name is referred to as a domain name.
Domain (n.) (Immunology) The three-dimensional structure within an immunoglobulin which is formed by one of the homology regions of a heavy or light chain. -- Dict. Sci. Tech.
Domain (n.) The field of knowledge, expertise, or interest of a person; as, he had a limited domain of discourse; I can't comment on that, it's outside my domain.
Syn: domain, realm, field, area.
Domain (n.) A particular environment or walk of life.
Syn: sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena.
Domain (n.) People in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest.
Syn: world, domain.
Public domain, () The territory belonging to a State or to the general government; public lands. [U.S.]
Public domain, () The situation or status of intellectual property which is not protected by copyright, patent or other restriction on use. Anything in the public domain may be used by anyone without restriction.
The effective term of force of copyrights and patents are limited by statute, and after the term expires, the writings and inventions thus protected go into the public domain and are free for use by all.
Right of eminent domain, that superior dominion of the sovereign power over all the property within the state, including that previously granted by itself, which authorizes it to appropriate any part thereof to a necessary public use, reasonable compensation being made.
Domain (n.) A particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit" [syn: sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena].
Domain (n.) Territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land" [syn: domain, demesne, land].
Domain (n.) (Mathematics) The set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined [syn: domain, domain of a function].
Domain (n.) People in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest; "the Western world" [syn: world, domain].
Domain (n.) The content of a particular field of knowledge [syn: knowledge domain, knowledge base, domain].
Domain, () Distributed Operating Multi Access Interactive Network (Apollo, DOMAIN)
Domain, () A group of computers whose fully qualified domain names (FQDN) share a common suffix, the "domain name".
The Domain Name System maps hostnames to Internet address using a hierarchical namespace where each level in the hierarchy contributes one component to the FQDN. For example, the computer foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk is in the doc.ic.ac.uk domain, which is in the ic.ac.uk domain, which is in the ac.uk domain, which is in the uk top-level domain.
A domain name can contain up to 67 characters including the dots that separate components. These can be letters, numbers and hyphens.
Domain, () An administrative domain is something to do with routing.
Domain, () Distributed Operating Multi Access Interactive Network.
Domain, () In the theory of functions, the set of argument values for which a function is defined.
See domain theory.
Domain, () A specific phase of the software life cycle in which a developer works. Domains define developers' and users' areas of responsibility and the scope of possible relationships between products.
Domain, () The subject or market in which a piece of software is designed to work. (2007-10-01)
Domain. () It signifies sometimes, dominion, territory governed - sometimes, possession, estate - and sometimes, land about the mansion house of a lord.
By domain is also understood the right to dispose at our pleasure of what belongs to us.
Domain. () A distinction, has been made between property and domain. The former is said to be that quality which is conceived to be in the thing itself, considered as belonging to such or such person, exclusively of all others.
By the latter is understood that right which the owner has of disposing of the thing. Hence domain and property are said to be correlative terms; the one is the active right to dispose, the other a passive quality which follows the thing, and places it at the disposition of the owner. 3 Toull. n. 8 3. But this distinction is too subtle for practical use. Puff. Droit de la Nature et des Gens, loi 4, c. 4, Sec. 2. Vide 1 B1. Com. 105, 106; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 456; Clef des Lois Rom. h.t.; Domat, h.t.; 1 Hill. Ab. 24; 2 Hill. Ab. 237; and Demesne as Of fee; Property; Things.
Domal (a.) (Astrol.) Pertaining to a house. -- Addison.
Domanial (a.) Of or relating to a domain or to domains.
Dome (n.) A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.
Approach the dome, the social banquet share. -- Pope.
Dome (n.) (Arch.) A cupola formed on a large scale.
Note:
"The Italians apply the term il duomo to the principal church
of a city, and the Germans call every cathedral church Dom; and it is supposed
that the word in its present English sense has crept into use
from the circumstance of such buildings being frequently surmounted
by a cupola." -- Am. Cyc.
Dome (n.) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a
building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top
of a boiler, etc.
Dome (n.) (Crystallog.) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
Note: If the plane is parallel to the longer diagonal (macrodiagonal) of the prism, it is called a macrodome; if parallel to the shorter (brachydiagonal), it is a brachydome; if parallel to the inclined diagonal in a monoclinic crystal, it is called a clinodome; if parallel to the orthodiagonal axis, an orthodome. -- Dana.
Dome (n.) Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Dome (n.) A concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward.
Dome (n.) Informal terms for a human head [syn: attic, bean, bonce, noodle, noggin, dome].
Dome (n.) A stadium that has a roof [syn: dome, domed stadium, covered stadium].
Dome (n.) A hemispherical roof.
DOME, () Distributed Object Management Environment (ORB)
Dome (n.) [ C ] A rounded roof on a building or a room, or a building with such a roof.
Dome (n.) [ C ] A shape like one-half of a ball.
// Gerald had a long grey beard and a shiny bald dome (= head).
Domebook (n.) (O. Eng. Law) A book said to have been compiled under the direction of King Alfred. It is supposed to have contained the principal maxims of the common law, the penalties for misdemeanors, and the forms of judicial proceedings. Domebook was probably a general name for book of judgments. -- Burrill.
DOME-BOOK, DOOM-BOOK or DOM-BEC, () A book in which Alfred the Great, of England, after uniting the Saxon heptarchy, collected the various customs dispersed through the kingdom, and digested them into one uniform code. 4 Bl. Com. 411.
Domed (a.) Furnished with a dome; shaped like a dome.
Domed (a.) Having a hemispherical vault or dome [syn: domed, vaulted].
Domesday (n.) A day of judgment. See Doomsday. [Obs.]
Domesday Book, The ancient record of the survey of most of the lands of England, made by order of William the Conqueror, about 1086. It consists of two volumes, a large folio and a quarto, and gives the proprietors' tenures, arable land, woodland, etc. [Written also Doomsday Book.]
DOMESDAY, or DOMESDAY-BOOK. An ancient record made in the time of William the Conqueror, and now remaining in the English exchequer, consisting of two volumes of unequal sizes, containing surveys of the lands in England.
Domesmen (n. pl. ) of Domesman.
Domesman (n.) A judge; an umpire. [Obs.]
Domestic (a.) Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants.
His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong. -- Macaulay.
Domestic (a.) Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions. -- Shak.
Domestic (a.) Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.
Domestic (a.) Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.
Domestic (a.) Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.
Domestic (n.) One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant.
The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic. -- V. Knox.
Domestic (n.) pl. (Com.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. [U. S.]
Domestic (a.) Of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation; "domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction" [ant: foreign].
Domestic (a.) Of or relating to the home; "domestic servant"; "domestic science."
Domestic (a.) Of or involving the home or family; "domestic worries"; "domestic happiness"; "they share the domestic chores"; "everything sounded very peaceful and domestic"; "an author of blood-and-thunder novels yet quite domestic in his taste" [ant: undomestic].
Domestic (a.) Converted or adapted to domestic use; "domestic animals";
"domesticated plants like maize" [syn: domestic, domesticated].
Domestic (a.) Produced in a particular country; "domestic wine"; "domestic oil."
Domestic (n.) A servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household [syn: domestic, domestic help, house servant].
Domestics, () Those who reside in the same house with the master they serve the term does not extend to workmen or laborers employed out of doors. 5 Binn. R. 167; Merl. Rep. h.t. The Act of Congress of April 30, 1790, s. 25, uses the word domestic in this sense.
Domestics, () Formerly, this word was used to designate those who resided in the house of another, however exalted their station, and who performed services for him. Voltaire, in writing to the French queen, in 1748, says) " Deign to consider, madam, that I am one of the domestics of the king, and consequently yours, lily companions, the gentlemen of the king," &c.
Domestics, () Librarians, secretaries, and persons in such honorable employments, would not probably be considered domestics, although they might reside in the house of their respective employers.
Domestics, () Pothier, to point out the distinction between a domestic and a servant, gives the following example: A literary man who lives and lodges with you, solely to be your companion, that you may profit by his conversation and learning, is your domestic; for all who live in the same house and eat at the same table with the owner of the house, are his domestics, but they are not servants. On the contrary, your Valet de, chambre, to whom you pay wages, and who sleeps out of your house, is not, properly speaking, your domestic, but your servant. Poth. Proc. Cr. sect. 2, art. 5, Sec. 5; Poth. Ob. 710, 828; 9 Toull. n. 314; H. De Pansey, Des Justices de Paix, c. 30, n. 1. Vide Operative; Servant.
Domestical (a.) Domestic. [Obs.]
Our private and domestical matter. -- Sir. P. Sidney.
Domestical (n.) A family; a household. [Obs.]
Domestically (adv.) In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.
Domestically (adv.) With respect to the internal affairs of a government; "domestically, the president proposes a more moderate economic policy."
Domestically (adv.) With respect to home or family; "the housewife bored us with her domestically limited conversation."
Domesticant (a.) Forming part of the same family. [Obs.] -- Sir E. Dering.
Domesticated (imp. & p. p.) of Domesticate.
Domesticating. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Domesticate.
Domesticate (a.) To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.
Domesticate (a.) To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.
Domesticate (a.) To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.
Domesticate (v.) Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" [syn: domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame].
Domesticate (v.) Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons" [syn: domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame].
Domesticate (v.) Make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog" [syn: domesticate, tame].
Domestication (n.) The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.
Domestication (n.) Adaptation to intimate association with human beings.
Domestication (n.) The attribute of having been domesticated [syn: tameness, domestication] [ant: wildness].
Domestication (n.) Accommodation to domestic life; "her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication."
Domesticator (n.) One who domesticates.
Domesticity (n.) The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.
Domesticity (n.) The quality of being domestic or domesticated; "a royal family living in unpretentious domesticity."
Domesticity (n.) Domestic activities or life; "making a hobby of domesticity."
Domett (n.) A kind of baize of which the ward is cotton and the weft woolen. -- Blakely.
Domeykite (n.) (Min.) A massive mineral of tin-white or steel-gray color, an arsenide of copper.
Domical (a.) Relating to, or shaped like, a dome.
Domicile (n.) An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or a family.
Domicile (n.) (Law) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode. -- Wharton.
Domiciled (imp. & p. p.) of Domicile.
Domiciling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Domicile.
Domicile (v. t.) To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate. -- Kent.
Domicile (n.) (Law) The residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time; "what's his legal residence?" [syn: domicile, legal residence].
Domicile (n.) Housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house].
Domicile (v.) Make one's home in a particular place or community; "may parents reside in Florida" [syn: reside, shack, domicile, domiciliate].
Domiciliar (n.) A member of a household; a domestic.
Domicillary (a.) Of or pertaining to a domicile, or the residence of a person or family.
The personal and domiciliary rights of the citizen scrupulously guarded. -- Motley.
Domiciliary visit (Law), A visit to a private dwelling, particularly for searching it, under authority.
Domiciliated (imp. & p. p.) of Domiciliate.
Domiciliating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Domiciliate.
Domiciliate (v. t.) To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.
Domiciliate (v. t.) To domesticate. -- Pownall.
Domiciliate (v.) Make one's home in a particular place or community; "may parents reside in Florida" [syn: reside, shack, domicile, domiciliate].
Domiciliate (v.) Provide housing for; "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town" [syn: house, put up, domiciliate].
Domiciliation (n.) The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy. -- Milman.
Domiciliation (n.) Temporary living quarters [syn: diggings, digs, domiciliation, lodgings, pad].
Domiculture (n.) The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc. [R.] -- R. Park.