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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.

Drowsiness. Thomson.

Drowsihead. [Obs.] Spenser.

In a drowsy manner.

State of being drowsy. Milton.

Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. "When I am drowsy." Shak. Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak. To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. Lowell.

See Drought. Bacon.

Having a gloomy look.

To embroider; to adorn. [Obs.] Embrowded was he, as it were a mead All full of fresshe flowers, white and red. Chaucer.

To give a brown color to; to imbrown. Summer suns embrown the laboring swain. Fenton.

To make froward, perverse, or ungovernable. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

A deed, bond, or other written engagement, delivered to a third person, to be held by him till some act is done or some condition is performed, and then to be by him delivered to the grantee. Blackstone.

The brow or hairy arch above the eye. Shak.

A little of pigs. Shak.

e at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.

or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. A froward man soweth strife. Prov. xvi. 28. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation. Bacon.

A tool. See 2d Frow. Tusser.

Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber.

To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look. The frowning wrinkle of her brow. Shak.

In a frowning manner.