DOMESTICS

Noun

domestics

plural of domestic

Noun

domestics pl (plural only)

(dated) Articles manufactured within a country rather than being imported, especially home-made cotton cloths.

Anagrams

• comedists, cosmetids, docetisms, miscosted

Source: Wiktionary


DOMESTIC

Do*mes"tic, a. Etym: [L. domesticus, fr. domus use: cf. F. domestique. See 1st Dome.]

1. Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong. Macaulay.

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.

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

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

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

Do*mes"tic, n.

1. One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant. The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic. V. Knox.

2. pl. (Com.)

Definition: Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. [U. S.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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