Dormant

dor′mant, adj. sleeping: at rest: not used, in abeyance (as a title): in a sleeping posture: ( arch it. ) leaning.— n. a cro beam: a joist.— n. Dor′mancy , quiescence.— ns. Dor′mer-win′dow , a vertical window, esp. of a sleeping-room (formerly called dormer ), on the sloping roof of a house; Dormi′tion , sleeping.— adj. Dor′mitive , causing sleep (of medicine), as opium.— ns. Dor′mitory , a large sleeping-chamber with many beds; Dor′mouse , a small rodent intermediate between the squirrel and the mouse, so called because torpid in winter:— pl. Dor′mice ; Dor′tour ( Spens. ) a dormitory. [Fr. dormir —L. dormīre , to sleep.]