domestic boiler

One for heating water on a somewhat large scale for the household. Such are made of sheet-metal, to set upon the top of a stove occupying two of the stove-holes; or, made of cast iron, they form reservoirs as a permanent attach. [WASH-BOILER, RESERVOIR ment to the stove. STOVE.] 2. A servant. ( South well : A Hundred Medit .) do-měs-ti-cal-ly, adv . [Eng. domestical ; -ly . ] 1. In relation to domestic or family matters. 2. In a domestic or homely manner; in privacy. "He lived domestically as usual."-Orrery: On Swift . 3. Privately, not openly. domestic ant *do-měs-ti-cant, a . [Low Lat. domestic ans, pa. par. of domestico , from Lat. domestic us .] Forming part of the same family; domesticated. "The power was virtually residing and domestic ant in the plurality of his a e ors."- Sir E. Dering: Speeches, p. 71. do-měs-ti-cāte, v . t . & i. [Low Lat. domestico, from Lat. domestic us ; Fr.domestiquer ; Ital. domes ticare ; Sp. domesticar .] A. Transitive : 1. To accustom to live near houses; to make used to the society of man; to tame. "But with domesticated sheep the presence or absence of horns is not a firmly-fixed character."- Darwin : Descent of Man (1871), pt. ii., ch. viii. 2. To make accustomed to a domestic life and the management of domestic affairs. "A young girl should grow up to be domesticated ." E. J. Worboise : Si ie , ch. xxi. 3. To make used or accustomed; to familiarize. "Having the entry into your house, and being half domesticated by their situation." -Burke: Letter to a Member of the National A embly. 4. To introduce into cultivation in gardens, greenhouses, . *B. In trans.: To live at home; to be domesticated. "Some honest and tender-hearted man, whose love might induce him to domesticate with her."-H Brooke: Fool of Quality , i. 305. do-měs-ti-cat-ěd, pa. par. or a. [DOMESTI CATE.] IMG:content-0356.png:[blocks in formation] 1. The act of making domesticated, or living much at home and in privacy. 2. The act of making accustomed to the society or presence of man; taming. 3. The act of bringing into cultivation from a wild state. 1504 (2) A residence, a place of abode, a home. domination *dom'-i-fy (2), v. t. [Fr. domifier , from Lat. "When an alien has chosen his domicil in the seat of dom us a house, and facio (pa . fio )=to make.] peace."- Sir W. Jones: Comment. on the Sirijiyyah. 2. Figuratively : (1) A seat, an abiding place. *(2) A compartment, a part. "One of the cells or domicils of the understanding, which is memory."-Bacon: On Learning , bk. ii., ch. xii. II. Law : 1. The place of residence of an individual or a family; the place where one habitually resides, and which he looks upon as his home, as distinguished from places where one resides temporarily or occasionally. Domicile is of three sorts: (1) Domicile of origin or nativity , which is that of the parents at the time of the birth; (2) Domicile of choice , which is that place in which a person voluntarily chooses as his residence and home; (3) Domicile by oper ation of law , as that of a wife acquired by marriage. 2. The length of time during which a party must have resided in a state in order to give jurisdiction in civil causes, the period varying in the different states. Astrol.: To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses, by means of six great circles, called circles of position, in order to erect a scheme or horoscope. dăm-i-nạ, s . [Lat., fem. of dominus =a lord.] Law : A title given to a lady who is a barone in her own right.