DOZE

v. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy. If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him. L'Estrange.

2.
v.

To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one's time.

3.
v.

To make dull; to stupefy. [Obs.] I was an hour . . . in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work. Pepys. They left for a long time dozed and benumbed. South.

4.
n.

A light sleep; a drowse. Tennyson.


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