dormar-window

A window made in the roof of a house.--Worster. The word seems formerly to have been dormant, as in the following:

Old dormant windows must confess

Her beams; their glimnering spectacles, &c.--Cleveland.

Here and there was a house with gambled roof and dormer windows.--Margaret, p. 33.

Window
·vt To furnish with windows. II. Window ·vt To place at or in a window. III. Window ·noun A figure...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Window
Properly only an opening in a house for the admission of light and air, covered with lattice-work, w...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Window
The window of an Oriental house consists generally of an aperture closed in with lattice-work. (Judg...

William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Bay window
·- A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rec...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Dormer window
·noun A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. A...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
window peeper
A collector of the window tax. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose