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.
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.]
