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domestic (iou)



domestic adjective & noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French domestique from Latin domesticus, from domus house, after rusticus RUSTIC adjective etc.]
A. adjective.
1. Of or pertaining to the Home, house, or household; pertaining to one's Home or family affairs. LME.
domestic bursar a person in charge of the administrative or financial affairs of a college or university. domestic science cookery and Other household activities, as subjects to be taught. domestic service the position or occupation of a household servant.
K. Clark Ivory mirror cases and Other domestic objects. A. Thwaite The two friends, the baby and the cat offered a picture of domestic bliss.
2. Not wild; (of an animal) kept by or living with humans, tame; (of a plant) cultivated. L15.
domestic fowl a bird reared for meat, eggs, or feathers; in pl. poultry; spec. the widely domesticated form of the SE Asian jungle fowl, Gallus gallus, a cock, a hen, a chicken.
T. Hardy A panting fox..trotted past them tamely as a domestic cat.
3. Having the character or position of the inmate of a house, housed. Also, intimate, familiar, at Home. (Foll. by with.) E16-M18.
Chesterfield Domestic in the best company and the best Families.
4. Of or pertaining to one's own country or nation; not foreign or international; indigenous; made in one's own country, not imported. M16.
domestic trade: see TRADE noun. gross domestic product: see GROSS adjective.
W. S. Churchill The domestic law of England was outraged by the arrogance..of the French despot.
5. Attached to Home; fond of Home life or duties. M17.
J. H. Newman It is praiseworthy and right to be domestic.
B. noun.
1. A member of a household; someone living in the same house as another person; a member of the family (lit. & fig.). M16-M18.
2. A household servant. E17.
b. A domestic animal. rare. E-M18.
3. An inhabitant of the same country; a native, a compatriot. Only in 17.
4. An article of Home manufacture (usu. in pl.); US a plain cotton fabric. E17.
5. A kind of cigar. US colloq. (now rare). M19.
6. A violent quarrel between family members, esp. between husband and wife. colloq. (orig. Police slang). M20.
domestical adjective & noun (now rare or obsolete) (a) adjective domestic; (b) noun a domestic; a member of a household: LME.
domestically adverb in a domestic way; as regards domestic matters or Home life; familiarly: L16.
domesticism noun devotion to Home life L18.
domesticize verb trans. domesticate M17.
domesticly adverb M17-M18.

Milk vetch (medicine)


milk vetch
<botany> A leguminous herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats.

The name is sometimes taken for the whole genus Astragalus, of which there are about two hundred species in North America, and even more elsewhere.

Source: Websters Dictionary