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DORMOUSE (a word usually taken to be connected with Lat. dormire, to sleep, with " mouse " added, cf. Germ. Schlafratte; it is not a corruption of Fr. dormeuse; Skeat suggests a connexion with Icel. (Mr, benumbed, cf. Eng. " doze ")