Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DO-MES'TIC, a. [L. domesticus, from domus, a house.]

1. Belonging to the house, or home; pertaining to one's place of residence, and to the family; as, domestic concerns; domestic life; domestic duties; domestic affairs; domestic contentions; domestic happiness; domestic worship.
2. Remaining much at home; living in retirement; as, a domestic man or woman.
3. Living near the habitations of man; tame; not wild; as, domestic animals.
4. Pertaining to a nation considered as a family, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, domestic troubles; domestic dissensions.
5. Made in one's own house, nation or country; as, domestic manufactures.