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To weigh (down); to oppress. [Obs.] Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow. Shak.

rs and then into boards, as by cutting alternately from each face of a quarter, to secure lumber that will warp relatively little or show the grain advantageously.

A promiscuous heap; a jumble; a large quantity; lumber; refuse. "A raff of errors." Barrow.

t in a vessel's side for loading or unloading timber or other bulky articles; a timber or lumber port.

stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed. That task performed, [preachers] relapse into themselves. Cowper.

A lying at rest; sleep; rest; quiet. Shake off the golden slumber of repose. Shak.

specifically, to saw a balk, or a timber, which has already been squared, into dimension lumber, as joists, boards, etc.

Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death. How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest. Collins.

River dragon, a crocodile; -- applied by Milton to the king of Egypt. -- River driver, a lumberman who drives or conducts logs down rivers. Bartlett. -- River duck (Zoöl.), any species of duck belonging to Anas, Spatula, and allied genera, in which the hind toe is destitute of a membranous lobe, as in the mallard and…

from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world. Young. Sable antelope (Zoöl.), a large South African antelope (Hippotragus niger). Both sexes have long, sharp horns. The adult male is black; the female is dark chestnut above, white beneath. -- Sable iron, a su…

A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.

an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree. Shake off the golden slumber of repose. Shak. 'Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age. Shak. I could scarcely shake him out of my company. Bunyan. To shake a cask (Naut.), to knock a cask to pieces and pack the staves. -- To…

Sweet; gentle; peaceful. "Silver slumber." Spenser. American silver fir (Bot.), the balsam fir. See under Balsam. -- Silver age (Roman Lit.), the latter part (a. d. 14-180) of the classical period of Latinity, -- the time of writers of inferior purity of language, as compared with those of the previous golden age, so-…

ry exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber. Chaucer. Watching at the head of these that sleep. Milton.

One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.

Sluggish. [Obs.] Somnolence that is sloggy slumbering Chaucer.

Slumber. [Prov. Eng.]

ish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself. Woodward. And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect. Longfellow.

t by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery.

Slumberous. Keats.