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  1. A gentle sleep; slumber. Merlin gon to slume Swulc he wolde slœpen. Layamon, l. 17995.
  2. To slumber; waste; decay. (Sire Telomew)cairys into a cabayne, quare the kyng ligges, Fand him slomande and on slepe, and sleely him rayses. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), Gloss., p. 193. (K. Alex., p. 176.)
  3. To become weak or flaccid, as plants and flowers touched by frost. [Now only prov. Eng. in both uses.]
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  1. Also dial sloum; from Middle English *sloume, sloumbe, slume, from Anglo-Saxon sluma, slumber; cf. sloom, v., slumber.
  2. Also dial. sloum, sleam; from Middle English slumen, slummen = Middle Low German slomen, slommen = Middle High German slumen, slummen, slumber; from the noun, Middle English *sloume, slume, from Anglo-Saxon sluma, slumber: see sloom, n., and cf. slumber.
 

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