DROWSE

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze. "He drowsed upon his couch." South. In the pool drowsed the cattle up to their knees. Lowell.

2.
v.

To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid. Milton.

3.
n.

A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze. But smiled on in a drowse of ecstasy. Mrs. Browning.

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