DORMANT, a. [L., to sleep.] 1. Sleeping; hence, at rest; not in action; as dormant passions.2. Being in a sleeping posture; as the lion dormant, in heraldry.3. Neglected; not used; as a dormant title; dormant privileges.4. Concealed; not divulged; private. [Unusual.]5. Leaning; inclining; not perpendicular; as a dormant window, supposed to be so called form a beam of that name. This is now written dormer or dormar.DORMANT, n. A beam; a sleeper.
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