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flying. The name is also applied to allied American species, as the June bug. Called also dorr, dorbeetle, or dorrbeetle, dorbug, dorrfly, and buzzard clock.

A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish.

See 1st Dor.

A European marine fish (Zeus faber), of a yellow color. See Illust. of John Doree.

A doorpost. [Obs.] "As dead as a doretree." Piers Plowman.

The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker. [Written also dorrhawk.] Booth.

Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of Doris; Doric; as, a Dorian fashion.

Pertaining to Doris, in ancient Greece, or to the Dorians; as, the Doric dialect.

A Doric phrase or idiom.

A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchiæ on the back.

A Doric phrase or idiom.

One of a breed of large-bodied domestic fowls, having five toes, or the hind toe double. There are several strains, as the white, gray, and silver-gray. They are highly esteemed for the table.

The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.

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.…

A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.

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

A burial place. [Obs.] Ayliffe. My sister was interred in a very honorable manner in our dormitory, joining to the parish church. Evelyn.

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.

Up, or ahead, as many holes as remain to be played; -- said of a player or side.

A British ray; the thornback.