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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.

Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.

To variegate with spots; to spot. The gentle day, . . . Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak. The dappled pink and blushing rose. Prior.

umber; 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.

Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head. Dryden.

In a drowsy manner.

State of being drowsy. Milton.

Taking flight; flying; -- used in composition. "Drowsy-flighted steeds." Milton.

Beclouded; dull; obscure; as, foggy ideas. Your coarse, foggy, drowsy conceit. Hayward.

light; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums. P. Fletcher. Still humming on, their drowsy course they keep. Pope.

to proclaim, or summon, by ringing. "Knolled to church." Shak. Heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours. Tennyson.

Pertaining to, affected with, or resembling, lethargy; morbidly drowsy; dull; heavy. -- Le*thar"gic*al*ly, v. -- Le*thar"gic*al*ness, n. -- Le*thar"gic*ness, n.

A lingerer; a dull, drowsy fellow. [Obs.]

To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze. Chaucer.

To be drowsy or dull; to be careless. Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream. Pope.

One who nods; a drowsy person.

Sleepy; drowsy; dull; sluggish; careless. He must not be oscitant, but intent on his charge. Barrow.

A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy.

Affected with poppy juice; hence, figuratively, drugged; drowsy; listless; inactive. [R.] The poppied sails doze on the yard. Lowell.

ve right of title; pleading the continuance and authority of long custom. The right to be drowsy in protracted toil has become prescriptive. J. M. Mason.