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  • English Word Dormice Definition of Dormouse
  • English Word Dormitive Definition Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium.
  • English Word Dormitive Definition A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific; an opiate.
  • English Word Dormitories Definition of Dormitory
  • English Word Dormitory Definition A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school.
  • English Word Dormitory Definition A burial place.
  • English Word Dormouse Definition A small European rodent of the genus Myoxus, of several species. They live in trees and feed on nuts, acorns, etc.; -- so called because they are usually torpid in winter.
  • English Word Dorn Definition A British ray; the thornback.
  • English Word Dornick Definition Alt. of Dornock
  • English Word Dornock Definition A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland.
  • English Word Dorp Definition A hamlet.
  • English Word Dorr Definition The dorbeetle; also, a drone or an idler. See 1st Dor.
  • English Word Dorr Definition To deceive. [Obs.] See Dor, v. t.
  • English Word Dorr Definition To deafen with noise.
  • English Word Dorrfly Definition See 1st Dor.
  • English Word Dorrhawk Definition See Dorhawk.
  • English Word Dorsad Definition Toward the dorsum or back; on the dorsal side; dorsally.
  • English Word Dorsal Definition Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
  • English Word Dorsal Definition Pertaining to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf.
  • English Word Dorsal Definition Pertaining to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss.
  • English Word Dorsal Definition A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, or of an altar, or in any similar position.
  • English Word Dorsale Definition Same as Dorsal, n.
  • English Word Dorsally Definition On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.
  • English Word Dorse Definition Same as dorsal, n.
  • English Word Dorse Definition The back of a book.
  • English Word Dorse Definition The Baltic or variable cod (Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish.
  • English Word Dorsel Definition A pannier.
  • English Word Dorsel Definition Same as Dorsal, n.
  • English Word Dorser Definition See Dosser.
  • English Word dorsibranchiata Definition A division of chaetopod annelids in which the branchiae are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [See Illusts. under Annelida and Chaetopoda.]