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ut on the semblance of; to make pretense of; to simulate; to feign. He soon dissembled a sleep. Tatler.

lance; unlikeness; dissimilarity. Dissimilitude between the Divinity and images. Stillingfleet.

e. Distinguishing pennant (Naut.), a special pennant by which any particular vessel in a fleet is recognized and signaled. Simmonds.

The condition of sleeping or becoming dormant by day, as is the case of the bats.

ity to other things than God, it is only a divinity by way of participation. Bp. Stillingfleet.

One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.

Causing, or tending to cause, giddiness or vertigo. To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder. Macaulay.

A long robe or outer garment, with long sleeves, worn by the Turks. [Written also doliman.]

ended from men's shoulders, for carrying persons or things; a palanquin. [Written also doolee and doolie.] [East Indies] Having provided doolies, or little bamboo chairs slung on four men's shoulders, in which I put my papers and boxes, we next morning commenced the ascent. J. D. Hooker.

Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles. It is by lying dormant a long time, or being . . . very rarely exercised, that arbitrary power steals upon a people. Burke.…

Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium. Clarke. -- n. (Med.)

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. Thackeray.

without need. A self-opinioned physician, worse than his distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him, "secundum artem." South

A place to sleep in; a bed; hence, sleep. [Slang]

Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation. Blackstone.

y twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as. Thus reënforced, against the adverse fleet, Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way. Dryden.

Free from fear or suspicion. [Obs.] Pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure. Shak.

To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse. Bp. Stillingfleet.

ine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool; esp.:

To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy. If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him. L'Estrange.