scepter dom, sceptre dom (septerdum)

[ ing the scepter. gland; a glandular organ which secretes any scepter +-dom.] 1†. Reign; period of wield- specially odoriferous substance, as musk or castoreum. Scent-glands are of many kinds in differ- ent animals, to which their peculiar odor is due, and they are for the most part of the category of secondary sexual organs, serving in the males to attract the females. The IMG:content-0269.png:[blocks in formation] In the scepter do me of Edward the Confe or the sands first began to growe into sight at a low water. Nashe , Lenten Stuffe (Harl. Misc., VI. 151). ( Davies .) 2. Imperial or regal authority. [Rare.] The Sabbath comes down to us venerable in all the hoarine of an immemorial antiquity, and imperial with all the sceptre dom of the Creator's example. G. D. Boardman , Creative Week, p. 251.