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<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership.</def>

<cs><col>Public domain</col>, <cd>the territory belonging to a State or to the general government; public lands.</cd> <mark>[U.S.]</mark><-- 2. the situation (status) of intellectual property which is not protected by copyright, patent or other restriction on use. Anything <col>in the public domain</col> may be used by anyone wihout restriction. --> -- <col>Right of eminent domain</col></mcol>, <cd>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.</cd></cs>

<h1>Domal</h1> <Xpage=443>

<hw>Do"mal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>domus</ets> house.]</ety> <fld>(Astrol.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to a house.</def>

<i>Addison.</i>

<h1>Domanial</h1> <Xpage=443>

<hw>Do*ma"ni*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or relating to a domain or to domains.</def>

<h1>Dome</h1> <Xpage=443>

<hw>Dome</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>d\'93me</ets>, It. <ets>duomo</ets>, fr. L. <ets>domus</ets> a house, <ets>domus Dei</ets> or <ets>Domini</ets>, house of the Lord, house of God; akin to Gr. <?/ house, <?/ to build, and E. <ets>timber</ets>. See <er>Timber</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.</def>

<blockquote>Approach the <b>dome</b>, the social banquet share. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>A cupola formed on a large scale.</def>

<note>&hand; "The Italians apply the term <i>il duomo</i> to the principal church of a city, and the Germans call every cathedral church <i>Dom</i>; 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."</note>

<i>Am. Cyc.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Crystallog.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<note>&hand; If the plane is parallel to the longer diagonal (macrodiagonal) of the prism, it is called a <i>macrodome</i>; if parallel to the shorter (brachydiagonal), it is a <i>brachydome</i>; if parallel to the inclined diagonal in a monoclinic crystal, it is called a <i>clinodome</i>; if parallel to the orthodiagonal axis, an <i>orthodome</i>.</note>

<i>Dana.</i>

<h1>Dome</h1> <Xpage=443>

<hw>Dome</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Doom</er>.]</ety> <def>Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Domebook</h1> <Xpage=443>

<hw>Dome"book`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Dome</ets> doom + <ets>book</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(O. Eng. Law)</fld> <def>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. <i>Domebook</i> was probably a general name for <i>book of judgments</i>.</def>

<i>Burrill.</i>

<h1>Domed</h1> <Xpage=443>

<hw>Domed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Furnished with a dome; shaped like a dome.</def>

<h1>Domesday</h1> <Xpage=443>

<hw>Domes"day`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A day of judgment. See <er>Doomsday</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>