n. One who sleeps: as, a sound sleeper.n. A drone, or lazy person; a sluggard.n. A dormant or inoperative thing; something that is in abeyance or is latent.n. An animal that lies dormant in winter or summer, as the bear, the marmot, certain mollusks, etc. See sleep, n., 4.n. Figuratively, a dead person.n. plural Grains of barley that do not vegetate in malting.n. A railway sleeping-car.n. In zoology:n. The dormouse, Myoxus avellanarius.n. The sleeper-shark, Somniosus microcephalus, and some related species, as Ginglymostoma cirratum.n. A gobioid fish of the genus Philypnus, Eleotris, or Dormitator, as D. lineatus or D. maculatus. See Elcotridinæ.n. A stump of a tree cut off short and left In the ground.n. A beam of wood or the like placed on the ground as a support for something.n. In ship-building, a thick piece of timber placed longitudinally in a ship's hold, opposite the several scarfs of the timbers, for strengthening the bows and stern-frame; a piece of long compass-timber fayed and bolted diagonally upon the transoms.n. In glass-making, one of the large iron bars crossing the smaller ones, which hinder the passage of coals, but leave room for the ashes.n. In weaving, the upper part of the heddle of a draw-loom, through which the threads pass.n. In faro, a bet left upon a card which the case-keeper shows is dead. Such a bet is public property and the first one to see it can take it.