Noah Webster
Dormant
DORMANT, adjective [Latin , 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, noun A beam; a sleeper.