doze

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Perched upon the railing in a semi-doze, the ears down, the eyes closed, sat a large brown cat: poor Jacobina, it was not thyself!

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  1. intransitive verb To sleep lightly and intermittently.
  2. transitive verb To spend (time) dozing or as if dozing: dozed the summer away.
  3. noun A short, light sleep.

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  • Perched upon the railing in a semi-doze, the ears down, the eyes closed, sat a large brown cat: poor Jacobina, it was not thyself! —  Eugene Aram — Complete
  • Taken in over-doze, all these churches and pictures and books and other products of our species are toxins for a boy like you. —  South Wind
  • 'My heart went a little queer, and I sat down and fell into a kind of doze -- a stupor, I suppose. —  The Return
  • And doze, and read a page or two, and doze, —  Young Adventure, a Book of Poems
  • He was seated by the rear window, and had fallen into a gentle doze -- the air of Patesville was conducive to slumber. —  The House Behind the Cedars
 

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slumber ·  reverie ·  swoon ·  stupor ·  wakefulness ·  faintness ·  trance ·  unconsciousness ·  nap ·  lethargy ·  numbness ·  snatch

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doze:   dozed ·  dozing
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Probably of Scandinavian origin.

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  1. Prob. from Icelandic dūsa, doze (cf. dūs, also dos, a lull, a dead calm), = Swedish dial, dusa, doze, slumber, = Danish döse, doze, mope; cf. s, drowsiness. Prob. connected with Icelandic dūrr; a nap, dūra, take a nap, and with Anglo-Saxon dysig, foolish, English dizzy: see dizzy, and words there cited. Connection with daze is doubtful.
  2. from doze, v. i.
 

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