adjective. Not awake; asleep.

adjective. Present but not active or manifest though capable of becoming so: synonym: inactive.

adjective. Temporarily inactive.

adjective. Being in a condition of biological rest or inactivity characterized by cessation of growth or development and the suspension of many metabolic processes.

Sleeping; asleep.

In heraldry, lying down with its head on its fore paws, as if asleep: said of a beast used as a bearing.

Hibernating: said of certain animals.

In a state of rest or inactivity; quiescent; not in action, movement, force, or operation; being or kept in abeyance: as, a dormant rebellion; a dormant title; dormant privileges.

noun. A beam; a sleeper: formerly also dormond, dormant-tree. Also dormer. Halliwell.

noun. A dish which remains from the beginning to the end of a repast, such as cold pies, hams, and potted meats, placed down the middle of the table at a large entertainment; a centerpiece which is not removed.

In botany, not active or growing.

noun. A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or “ sleep.”

adjective. Inactive, asleep, suspended.

adjective. lying with head on paws as if sleeping

adjective. in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation

adjective. (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct

adjective. inactive but capable of becoming active

"They are dormant, at any rate, to use another word, for the death of my text is not so absolute a death but that a resurrection is possible, and so _dormant_ comes to express pretty nearly the same thing."