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Nodding

adjective

1.

Having branches or flower heads that bend downward. Synonyms: cernuous, drooping, pendulous, weeping. "The pendulous branches of a weeping willow" , "Lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers"

Nod

verb

(past & past part. nodded; pres. part. nodding)

1.

Express or signify by nodding.

2.

Lower and raise the head, as to indicate assent or agreement or confirmation.

3.

Let the head fall forward through drowsiness.

4.

Sway gently back and forth, as in a nodding motion.

5.

Be almost asleep.

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"Nodding" Quotes from Famous Books

... lit up her dreaming eyes. Rows upon rows of dolls.... And not even Appomattox and Atlanta had ever seen so many before; and now how funny they acted, dancing around and around and bobbing their quaint bodies and winking and nodding at her.... It was Mayday with them and down the long line of spindles these cotton dolls were dancing around their May Queen, and ...

— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore

... illustrious chief of Troy Stretched his fond arms to clasp the lovely boy. The babe clung crying to his nurse's breast, Scared at the dazzling helm, and nodding crest. With secret pleasure each fond parent smiled, And Hector hasted to relieve his child; The glittering terrors from his brows unbound, And placed the beaming helmet on the ground. Then kissed the child, and, lifting ...

— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 - Sorrow and Consolation • Various

... good resolutions. No doubt he meant to stay awake just as firmly as Thad himself could have done. But sleeping was one of the fat boy's weak points, and it was not long before he found himself nodding. ...

— The, Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island - or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers • Herbert Carter

... nature of his speculations regarding the probable history of the sandstone, whose strata, laid as at Trenton Falls, horizontally, layer above layer, add such interest and beauty to the stupendous walls, with their unseen, water-covered depths below, and their graceful wreaths of arbor vittae nodding and swaying above. ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... brazenly when he reached the lot. The space in front of the main entrance was packed with people, many of whom pointed to him, nodding their heads and directing the attention of their ...

— The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings • Edgar B. P. Darlington

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