in Natural History, a name given to those animals which sleep all winter; such as bears, marmots, dormice, bats, hedgehogs, swallows, &c. These do not feed in winter, have no sensible evacuations, breathe little or none at all, and most of the vices cease from their functions. Some of these animals seem to be dead, and others return to a state like that of the fetus before birth: in this state they continue, till by an increase of heat the animal is restored to its former functions.

in a ship, timbers lying before and aft in the bottom of the ship, as the rungheads do: the lowermost of them is bolted to the rungheads, and the uppermost to the futtocks and rungs.