When the game has been
definitely blocked the player whose pips aggregate the lower number
scores the number of the combined hands (sometimes only the excess in
his opponent's hand), the game being usually 100. Matador can be
played by three persons, in which case the two having the lowest
scores usually combine against the threatening winner; and also by
four, either each for himself or two on a side.

Other varieties of the game not often played are the Bergen game,
Sevastopol and Domino Loo.

See _Card and Table Games_ by Hoffmann (London, G. Routledge & Sons).

DOMINUS (from an Indo-European root _dam-_, cf. Gr. [Greek: daman], to
subdue, and Eng. "tame"), the Latin word for master or owner. As a title
of sovereignty the term under the republic at Rome had all the
associations of the Greek [Greek: tyrannos]; refused during the early
principate, it finally became an official title of the Roman emperors
under Diocletian. _Dominus_, the French equivalent being _sieur_, was
the Latin title of the feudal (superior and mesne) lords, and also an
ecclesiastical and academical title. The ecclesiastical title was
rendered in English "sir," which was a common prefix before the
Reformation for parsons, as in "Sir Hugh Evans" in Shakespeare's _Merry
Wives of Windsor_. The academical use was for a bachelor of arts, and so
is still used at Cambridge and other universities. The shortened form
"dom" is used as a prefix of honour for ecclesiastics of the Roman
Church, and especially for members of the Benedictine and other
religious orders. The same form is also a title of honour in Portugal,
as formerly in Brazil, used by members of the blood royal and others on
whom it has been conferred by the sovereign. The Spanish form "don" is
also a title, formerly applicable only to the nobility, and now one of
courtesy and respect applied to any member of the better classes. The
feminine form "donna" is similarly applied to a lady. The English
colloquial use of "don" for a fellow or tutor of a college at a
university is derived either from an application of the Spanish title to
one having authority or position, or from the academical use of
_dominus_. The earliest use of the word in this sense appears, according
to the _New English Dictionary_, in South's _Sermons_ (1660). An English
corruption "dan" was in early use as a title of respect, equivalent to
"master." The particular literary application to poets is due