DORMOUSE, nounplural Dormice. [Latin, to sleep and mouse.] An animal of the mouse kind, which makes a bed of moss or dry leaves, in a hollow tree or under shrubs, lays in a store of nuts or other food, and on the approach of cold weather, rolls itself in a ball and sleeps the greatest part of the winter.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.