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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- English Word Dornock Definition A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc.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.