Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition

Doze

Doze

(dōz)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dozed
(dōzd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Dozing
.]
[Prob. akin to
daze
,
dizzy
: cf. Icel.
dūsa
to doze, Dan.
döse
to make dull, heavy, or drowsy,
dös
dullness, drowsiness,
dösig
drowsy, AS.
dwǣs
dull, stupid, foolish. √71. Cf.
Dizzy
.]
To slumber; 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.

Doze

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To pass or spend in drowsiness;
as, to
doze
away one's time
.
2.
To make dull; to stupefy.
[Obs.]
I was an hour . . . in casting up about twenty sums, being
dozed
with much work.
Pepys.
They left for a long time
dozed
and benumbed.
South.

Doze

,
Noun.
A light sleep; a drowse.
Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Doze

DOZE

,
Verb.
I.
[See Dote.]
1.
To slumber; to sleep lightly.
If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him.
2.
To live in a state of drowsiness; to be dull or half asleep; as, to doze away the time; to doze over a work.

DOZE

,
Verb.
T.
To make dull; to stupify. Dryden uses the participle dozed, Dozed with his fumes; but the transitive verb is seldom or never used.

Similar Results