Vocabulary : Dominican to Dominus

Dominican : Of or pertaining to St. Dominic (Dominic de Guzman), or to the religions communities named from him. ;; One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins.
Dominicide : The act of killing a master. ;; One who kills his master.
Dominie : A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. ;; A clergyman. See Domine, 1.
Dominion : Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy. ;; Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency. ;; That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions. ;; A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3.
Dominion Day : In Canada, a legal holiday, July lst, being the anniversary of the proclamation of the formation of the Dominion in 1867.

Domino : A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice. ;; A mourning veil formerly worn by women. ;; A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling. ;; A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure. ;; A person wearing a domino. ;; A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played ;; One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.
Domino whist : A game of cards in which the suits are played in sequence, beginning with a 5 or 9, the player who gets rid of his cards first being the winner.
Dominoes : of Domino
Dominos : of Domino
Dominus : Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor.