domino

• ⇰ A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.
• ⇰ A mourning veil formerly worn by women.
• ⇰ A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.
• ⇰ A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.
• ⇰ A person wearing a domino.
• ⇰ A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The ga
• ⇰ One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.