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involuntarily through drowsiness, dullness, or fatigue; to gape; to oscitate. "The lazy, yawning drone." Shak. And while above he spends his breath, The yawning audience nod beneath. Trumbull.

In a yawning manner.

; astounded; astonished. [Archaic] Spenser. Thus Ellen, dizzy and astound. As sudden ruin yawned around. Sir W. Scott.

An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm. [Archaic] Between us and there is fixed a great chaos. Luke xvi. 26 (Rhemish Trans. ).

A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure. That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the green hill. Coleridge.

To open; to yawn. [Obs.] O, chaun thy breast. Marston.

body without order; a throng. The crowd of Vanity Fair. Macualay. Crowds that stream from yawning doors. {\*\bkmkstart here}Tennyson.

the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. Gen xvii. 8. And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness. Pope.

An executioner. [Obs.] Delivering o'er to executors pa . . . The lazy, yawning drone. Shak.

To gape,; to yawn. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To yawn; to gape. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn. She stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes, And asks if it be time to rise. Swift.

A fit of yawning.

To grin or yawn. [Obs.] "[/He] gaped like a gulf when he did gern." Spenser.

See Yawn. [Obs.] Marston.

r recline, in an indolent manner. We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics. J. Hannay.

y rock. Your swords are now too massy for your strengths, And will not be uplifted. Shak. Yawning rocks in massy fragments fly. Pope.

The act of gaping or yawning.

Yawning; gaping.

To gape; to yawn.