DORMANT, dor'mant, _adj._ sleeping: at rest: not used, in abeyance (as a
title): in a sleeping posture: (_archit._) leaning.--_n._ a crossbeam: 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. _dorm[=i]re_, to sleep.]
DORMY, DORMIE, dor'mi, _adj._ a term applied to one player at golf, when he
is as many holes ahead as there remain holes to be played.
DORNICK, dor'nik, _n._ a kind of stout figured linen, originally made at
_Doornik_, or Tournay, in Belgium.
DORP, dorp, _n._ a rare form of _thorp_, village.
DORSAL, dor'sal, _adj._ pertaining or belonging to the back.--_adv._
DOR'SALLY.--_n._ DORSE (_obs._), the back of a writing: a dossal: the
back.--_adj._ DORSIBRANCH'IATE, having gills on the back.--_n._ one of the
_Dorsibranchiata_, including free marine worms.--_adjs._ DORSIF'EROUS,
dorsigerous: dorsiparous; DORSIG'EROUS, carrying on the back; DOR'SIGRADE,
walking on the back of the toes; DORSIP'AROUS, bearing fruit on the back:
hatching young upon the back; DOR'SISPIN'AL, pertaining to both the back
and the spine; DORSIVEN'TRAL, DORSABDOM'INAL, pertaining to the back and
the belly; DORSOCAU'DAL, superior and posterior in direction or position;
DORSOCER'VICAL, pertaining to the back of the neck.--_n._ DORSOFLEX'ION, a
bending of the back, a bow.--_adjs._ DORSOLAT'ERAL, pertaining to the back
and the side; DORSOLUM'BAR, pertaining to the whole dorsal region of the
trunk--also DORSILUM'BAR; DORSOM[=E]'DIAN, situated in the middle of the
back; DORSOMES'AL, lying along the middle line of the back--also
DORSIMES'AL; DORSOPLEU'RAL, pertaining to the back and the side.--_n._
DORS'UM.--SEND TO DORSE, to throw on the back. [Fr.,--L. _dorsum_, the
back.]