2. To tame; to domesticate. [Obs.] Johnson.
DOMINA
Dom"i*na, n. Etym: [L., lady. See Dame.] (O. Eng. Law)
Defn: Lady; a lady; — a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right. Burrill.
DOMINANCE; DOMINANCY
Dom"i*nance, Dom"i*nan*cy, n.
Defn: Predominance; ascendency; authority.
DOMINANT Dom"i*nant, a. Etym: [L. dominans, -antis, p. pr. of dominari: cf. F. dominant. See Dominate.]
Defn: Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power. The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel. Macaulay. Dominant estate or tenement (Law), the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate over which the servitude extends being called the servient estate or tenement. Bouvier. Wharton's Law Dict. — Dominant owner (Law), one who owns lands on which there is an easement owned by another.
Syn. — Governing; ruling; controlling; prevailing; predominant; ascendant.
DOMINANT
Dom"i*nant, n. (Mus.)
Defn: The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on. Dominant chord (Mus.), the chord based upon the dominant.