dormer, dormar

[Fr. dormir=(v.) to sleep, (s.) a sleep.] 1. A sleeping-chamber, a bed-room. "Or to any shop, cellar, sollar, casements, chamber, dormer, and so forth."-Chapman: All Fools , iv. 1. 2. A beam of timber acting as a joist; a dormant tree. "In a parlor belonging to a farm-house, there was a remarkably large dormar of chesnut."-Clubbe: Antiquities of Wheatfield. 3. A dormer-window (q. v.). 4. An attic, a garret. pine, pit, sire, sûr, marine; gō, põt, IMG:content-0389.png:[blocks in formation] "Books were not published then so soon as they were written, but lay most commonly formient many years."Bramhall: Works , ii. 142. *dor-mi-tion, *dor-mi-tione,s. [Lat. dormitio , from dormio to sleep.] Slumber, sleep. "To plead not so much for the utter extinction, as for the dorm it i one of the soul." -Bp. Hall: Works, vii. 295. ( Davies .) A. As substantive : 1511 Fabric: A stout description of damask-linen cloth, figured and designed for a common style of table cloths. It affords the most simple example of all the varieties of diaper or damask. "No person shall make or weane dornecks , or exercise the misteries of weaning of dornecks and couerlettes, or any of them, within the sayde citie of Norwich, onles he be licensed by the Maiour."-15 Eliz . , с. 24. B. As adj .: Of or belonging to dornick; made of the material called dornick. ■ A dornyk towall."- Aberd . Reg . (an. 1538), v. 16. dor'-ni-cie, s. [ Ger.dorn =athorn; Flem. doornig =thorny, so called from the two small beards at the nostril.] The viviparous blenny. "Blennius Viviparus, Viviparous Blenny, vulgarly called Dornicle." - Arbuthnot: Peter head, p. 12. *dör-on, s . [Gr.=a gift.] 1. A gift, a present. 2. A measure of three inches; a hand-breadth. dör-on-1-cŭm, s. [Arab. dorongi.] Botany : Leopard's-bane, a genus of Composite plants, belonging to the sub-order Tubuliflore, subtribe Seneciones. Some species are poisonous. *dorp, s. [Low Ger. & Dut. dorp ; O. H. Ger. dorf; Icel. & A. S. thorp ; Sw. & Dan. torp .] dor-mi-tive, a. & s. [Fr. dormitif, from dor- [THORPE.] A village. mir=to sleep; Lat. dormio.] A. As adj .: Producing or tending to produce or promote sleep; narcotic, soporific. B. As subst.: A medicine intended to produce or promote sleep; an opiate, a soporific. "This is the dormitive I take to bedward."-Green hill: Art of Embalming , p. 112.