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adj. prenom. 1. adaptable to all voltages; -- of a radio receiver. [ British ] For power supplies, the term "switching" is used to designate ability to use more than one voltage as a power source. Typically, it is used for the ability to use both 110 and 220 volt AC sources. an all-mains set [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ OF. Aleman, F. Allemand, fr. L. Alemanni, ancient Ger. tribes. ] [ Obs. ] 1. A German. Also adj., German. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The German language. J. Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A kind of dance. See Allemande. [ 1913 Webster ]

Almain rivets,
Almayne rivets, or
Alman rivets, a sort of light armor from Germany, characterized by overlapping plates, arranged to slide on rivets, and thus afford great flexibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + main. See 2d Main, n. ] 1. With might; with full force; vigorously; violently; exceedingly. [ 1913 Webster ]

They on the hill, which were not yet come to blows, perceiving the fewness of their enemies, came down amain. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

That striping giant, ill-bred and scoffing, shouts amain. T. Parker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. At full speed; in great haste; also, at once. “They fled amain.” Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. amener. See Amenable. ] (Naut.) To lower, as a sail, a yard, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Naut.) To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Aramæan, a. ] Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramæan; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee. -- n. The Aramaic language. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An idiom of the Aramaic. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. for amel, enamel. ] To figure or variegate. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ F., fr. baiser to kiss + mains hands. ] Respects; compliments. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A girl or woman who attends the customers of a bar, as in a tavern or beershop. [ 1913 Webster ]

A bouncing barmaid. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Black + mail a piece of money. ] 1. A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eng. Law) Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to “white rent”, which paid in silver. [ 1913 Webster ]

To levy blackmail, to extort money by threats, as of injury to one's reputation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Blackmailed p. pr. & vb. n. Blackmailing. ] To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bond, a. or n. + maid. ] A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., n. See Bridesmaid, Bridesman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. L. bruma winter. ] The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F.; of unknown origin. Cf. Cameo. ] 1. A cameo. [ Obs. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fine Arts) Painting in shades of one color; monochrome. Mollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. camail (cf. It. camaglio), fr. L. caput head + source of E. mail. ] 1. (Ancient Armor) A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A hood of other material than mail; esp. (Eccl.), a hood worn in church services, -- the amice, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A lady's maid. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists the cook. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Fort.) An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dairymaid. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Demesne. ] 1. Rule; management. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) See Demesne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + mail: cf. OF. desmaillier. ] To divest of coat of mail. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. domaine, OF. demaine, L. dominium, property, right of ownership, fr. dominus master, owner. See Dame, and cf Demesne, Dungeon. ] 1. Dominion; empire; authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively. [ wns=2 ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The domain of authentic history. E. Everett. [ 1913 Webster ]

The domain over which the poetic spirit ranges. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne. [ wns=2 ] Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Math.) the set of values which the independent variable of a function may take. Contrasted to range, which is the set of values taken by the dependent variable. [ wns=3 ] [ PJC ]

6. (Math.) a connected set of points, also called a region. [ PJC ]

7. (Physics) a region within a ferromagnetic material, composed of a number of atoms whose magnetic poles are pointed in the same direction, and which may move together in a coordinated manner when disturbed, as by heating. The direction of polarity of adjacent domains may be different, but may be aligned by a strong external magnetic field. [ PJC ]

8. (Computers) an address within the internet computer network, which may be a single computer, a network of computers, or one of a number of accounts on a multiuser computer. The domain specifies the location (host computer) to which communications on the internet are directed. Each domain has a corresponding 32-bit number usually represented by four numbers separated by periods, as 128.32.282.56. Each domain may also have an alphabetical name, usually composed of a name plus an extension separated by a period, as worldsoul.org; the alphabetical name is referred to as a domain name. [ PJC ]

9. (Immunology) the three-dimensional structure within an immunoglobulin which is formed by one of the homology regions of a heavy or light chain. Dict. Sci. Tech. [ PJC ]

10. the field of knowledge, expertise, or interest of a person; as, he had a limited domain of discourse; I can't comment on that, it's outside my domain. [ wns=5 ]
Syn. -- domain, realm, field, area. [ PJC ]

11. a particular environment or walk of life. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena. [ PJC ]

12. people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest. [ wns=4 ]
Syn. -- world, domain. [ PJC ]

Public domain, 1. the territory belonging to a State or to the general government; public lands. [ U.S. ] -- 2. the situation or status of intellectual property which is not protected by copyright, patent or other restriction on use. Anything
in the public domain may be used by anyone without restriction. The effective term of force of copyrights and patents are limited by statute, and after the term expires, the writings and inventions thus protected go into the public domain and are free for use by all. --
Right of eminent domain, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Computers) 1. a message transmitted from one computer to another, accessible by means of a mail reading program on the receiving computer. The message may have one or many intended recipients, and may be directed by the sending program to one or to multiple receiving computers. The message is typically in the form of a computer file, and may be a simple ASCII text, or any other type of binary coded information
Syn. -- email. [ PJC ]

n. electronic mail; a digitally encoded message sent from one computer to another through an electronic communications medium, especially by means of a computer network.
Syn. -- electronic mail. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. E-mailed p. pr. & vb. n. E-mailing. ] to send (an e-mail message) to someone; as, I emailed the article to the editor; she emailed me her report.
Syn. -- mail electronically. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ . (Elec.) A form of conductor, designed by Ferranti, for currents of high potential, and consisting of concentric tubes of copper separated by an insulating material composed of paper saturated with black mineral wax. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F., fr. frimas hoarfrost. ] The third month of the French republican calendar. It commenced November 21, and ended December 20., See Vendémiaire. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Obs. ] See Germane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Finance) The act, performed by a publicly traded corporation, of paying a corporate raider to give up a takeover attempt, by buying the shares of stock he owns; also, the threat posed by corporate raiders to take over a company unless their stocks are purchased by the company at a price giving them a large profit. [ Informal ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant. [ wns=2 ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something or someone serving in a subordinate position; as, theology should be the handmaiden of ethics. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- handmaid, servant. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms. [ 1913 Webster ]

Housemaid's knee (Med.), a swelling over the knee, due to an enlargement of the bursa in the front of the kneepan; -- so called because frequently occurring in servant girls who work upon their knees. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wearing mail or armor; clad of armor. W. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An instrument of torture used in the middle ages, consisting of a box large enough to hold a person, often in the shape of a woman, and having multiple sharp spikes on the inside. Called also the iron maiden of Nuremberg. [ PJC ]

n. One of the West Indian islands. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jamaica ginger, a variety of ginger, called also white ginger, prepared in Jamaica from the best roots, which are deprived of their epidermis and dried separately. --
Jamaica pepper, allspice. --
Jamaica rose (Bot.), a West Indian melastomaceous shrub (Blakea trinervis), with showy pink flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Jamaica. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Jamaica. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Jamaica. ] (Chem.) An alkaloid said to be contained in the bark of Geoffroya inermis, a leguminous tree growing in Jamaica and Surinam; -- called also jamacina. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman employed in the kitchen. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Lamaism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A modified form of Buddhism which prevails in Tibet, Mongolia, and some adjacent parts of Asia; -- so called from the name of its priests. See 2d Lama. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Lamaism. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. One who believes in Lamaism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. léger light, nimble + de of + main hand, L. manus. See 3d Leger, and Manual. ] Sleight of hand; a trick of sleight of hand; hence, any artful deception or trick. [ 1913 Webster ]

He of legierdemayne the mysteries did know. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

The tricks and legerdemain by which men impose upon their own souls. South. [ 1913 Webster ]