Dormant, a.
- 1. Sleeping, quiescent, at rest.
- 2. Latent, unexerted, suspended, inert, inactive, in abeyance.
Dormant partner. Sleeping partner, silent partner.
Dormer, n. [Written also Dormar.] Luthern, dormer-window.
Dormer-window, n. Dormer, luthern.
Dormitory, n.
- 1. Chamber, bedroom, sleeping room, place to sleep in.
- 2. Building containing sleeping apartments.
Dorsal, a. On the back.
Dory, n. (Ich.) See doree.
Dose, n.
- 1. Prescribed portion (of medicine), drench, draught.
- 2. Disagreeable lot or fate or portion, bitter pill.
- 3. Sufficient quantity, quantity, portion, quantum.
Dose, v. a. Administer a dose to, give doses to.
Dot, n. Point, period.
Dot, v. a.
- 1. Mark with dots.
- 2. Variegate, diversify.
Dotage, n. Imbecility, senility, second childhood.
Dotard, n. Driveller, imbecile, doting old man.
Dote, v. n.
- 1. Drivel, be imbecile, be foolish, be in one’s dotage or second childhood.