DOMINOS
dominoes, dominos
(noun) any of several games played with small rectangular blocks
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Noun
dominos
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DOMINO
Dom"i*no, n.; pl. Dominos or (esp. the pieces for a game) Dominoes.
Etym: [F. domino, or It. dominò, or Sp. dominó, fr. L. dominus
master. The domino was orig. a hood worn by the canons of a
cathedral. See Don, Dame.]
1. A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of
amice. Kersey.
2. A mourning veil formerly worn by women.
3. 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.
4. A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe
with a hood adjustable at pleasure.
5. A person wearing a domino.
6. pl.
Definition: 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 Hoyle.
7. One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.
Hoyle. fall like dominoes. To fall sequentially, as when one object
in a line, by falling against the next object, causes it in turn to
fall, and that second object causes a third to fall, etc.; the
process can be repeated an indefinite number of times. Derived from
an entertainment using dominoes arranged in a row, each standing on
edge and therefore easily knocked over; when the first is made to
fall against the next, it starts a sequence which ends when all have
fallen. For amusement, people have arranged such sequences involving
thousands of dominoes, arrayed in fanciful patterns. Domino theory. A
political theory current in the 1960's, according to which the
conversion of one country in South Asia to communism will start a
sequential process causing all Asian countries to convert to
Communism. The apparent assumption was that an Asian country with a
Western orientation was as politically unstable as a domino standing
on edge. Used by some as a justification for American involvement in
the Vietnam war, 1964-1972.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition