DOME

Definitions

1. 1. A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry. Approach the dome, the social banquet share. Pope.
2. 2. A cupola formed on a large scale.
3. 3. Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
4. 4. A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.