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Slumber
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose. He at last fell into a slumber, and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night. Bunyan. Fast asleep It is no matter; Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. Shak. Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. Dryden.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze. Piers Plowman. He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Ps. cxxi. 4.
2. To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity. "Why slumbers Pope" Young.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To lay to sleep. [R.] Wotton.
2. To stun; to stupefy. [Obs.] Spenser.