dormant, n.m., (tech., carp.) dormant, dormer, sleeper, post, fixed frame; epergne.
dormeu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., (pers.) sleeper; sluggard.
dormeuse, n.f., easy traveling carriage; lounging chair.
*dormille, n.f., (ich.) loach.
dormir (dormant, dormi), v.n., to sleep, to be asleep; to be supine; to be still; to be dormant (of money); to be stagnant (of water); to do nothing. — d’un bon sommeil, d’un bon somme; to sleep soundly. — trop longtemps; to oversleep one’s self. — la grasse matinée; to lie late in bed. — tout debout; not to be able to keep one’s eyes open. Qui dort, dîne; sleeping is as good as eating. Il dort comme une marmotte or comme un sabot; he sleeps like a top. Il n’y a point de pire eau que l’eau qui dort; still waters run deep. — sur les deux oreilles; to sleep soundly. Qui a renommée de se lever matin peut — jusqu’à midi; a good reputation covers a multitude of sins. Ce sont des contes à — de bout; they are old wives’ tales (i.e., tedious, nonsensical).
dormir, n.m., sleep.
dormiti-f, -ve, adj., soporific, somniferous. Une potion —ve; a sleeping draught.
dormitif, n.m., dormitive. L’opium est un dangereux —; opium is a dangerous sleeping-draught.
doronic, n.m., (bot.) doronicum, leopard’s-bane.
dorsal, -e, adj., dorsal.