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.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. [U. S.]
Do*mes"tic (?), a. [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.
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