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- English Word Dolphin Definition A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale.
- English Word Dolphin Definition In old ordnance, one of the handles above the trunnions by which the gun was lifted.
- English Word Dolphin Definition A small constellation between Aquila and Pegasus. See Delphinus, n., 2.
- English Word Dolphinet Definition A female dolphin.
- English Word Dolt Definition A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.
- English Word Dolt Definition To behave foolishly.
- English Word Doltish Definition Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown.
- English Word Dolus Definition Evil intent, embracing both malice and fraud. See Culpa.
- English Word Dolven Definition of Delve.
- English Word Dom Definition A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders. See Don, and Dan.
- English Word Dom Definition In Portugal and Brazil, the title given to a member of the higher classes.
- English Word Domable Definition Capable of being tamed; tamable.
- English Word Domableness Definition Tamableness.
- English Word Domage Definition Damage; hurt.
- English Word Domage Definition Subjugation.
- English Word Domain Definition Dominion; empire; authority.
- English Word Domain Definition The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively.
- English Word Domain Definition Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne.
- English Word Domain Definition Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership.
- English Word Domal Definition Pertaining to a house.
- English Word Domanial Definition Of or relating to a domain or to domains.
- English Word Dome Definition A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.
- English Word Dome Definition A cupola formed on a large scale.
- English Word Dome Definition 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.
- English Word Dome Definition 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.
- English Word Dome Definition Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision.
- English Word Domebook Definition 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.
- English Word Domed Definition Furnished with a dome; shaped like a dome.
- English Word Domesday Definition A day of judgment. See Doomsday.
- English Word Domesman Definition A judge; an umpire.