Some herbs are most comestible. Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ancient demesne. (Eng. Law) See under Ancient. [ 1913 Webster ]

The carpet beetle, called the buffalo moth, is a dermestoid beetle. Pop. Sci. Monthly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Domesday Book, the ancient record of the survey of most of the lands of England, made by order of William the Conqueror, about 1086. It consists of two volumes, a large folio and a quarto, and gives the proprietors' tenures, arable land, woodland, etc. [ Written also Doomsday Book. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic. V. Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Com.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Our private and domestical matter. Sir. P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]