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Webster 1913 Edition
Slumbery
Slum′ber-y
,Adj.
Sleepy.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Slumbery
SLUM'BEROUS
, SLUM'BERY,Adj.
1.
Inviting or causing sleep; soporiferous. While pensive in the slumberous shade2.
Sleep; not waking.Definition 2025
slumbery
slumbery
English
Alternative forms
Adjective
slumbery (comparative more slumbery, superlative most slumbery)
- (obsolete) Sleepy, slumberous.
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Parson's Tale’, Canterbury Tales, Ellesmere ms.:
- thanne wexeth he slough and slombry and soone wol be wrooth [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
- In that same covert whereas lay / Faire Chrysogone in slombry traunce whilere [...].
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Parson's Tale’, Canterbury Tales, Ellesmere ms.: