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noun

Doze n. A light sleep; a drowse.

verb

Doze v. t.

To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one's time.

To make dull; to stupefy. (Obs.) "I was an hour... in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work." "They left for a long time dozed and benumbed."

Doze v. i. (past & past part. dozed; pres. part. dozing) 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."

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Etymology of 'Doze'

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"Doze" Quotes from Famous Books

... are neither idle nor frivolous. Do doze off, if you can, dear; I'll go and get something ...

— A Life's Morning • George Gissing

... the railway carriage he paid small attention to his wife, but sat rigidly reading his Times, until about midway to their destination he descended at a station and paid a visit to the buffet in the small refreshment room, after which he settled himself to doze in an exceedingly unbecoming attitude, his travelling cap pulled down, his rather heavy face congested with the dark flush Rosalie had not yet learned was due to the fact that he had hastily tossed off two or three whiskies and sodas. Though he was never either thick of utterance or ...

— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... night, as he watched the heavy doze between sleep and stupor, and tried to catch the low, indistinct mutterings that now and then seemed to ask for something. Towards morning Philip awoke more fully, and as Guy was feeling his pulse, he ...

— The Heir of Redclyffe • Charlotte M. Yonge

... rocks near the water's edge, with his neck coiled up and stowed away in some recess in his capacious crop, the fish forgetting, or sailed on lazy wings across the bay, to seek some sequestered spot to doze away the time, and digest his huge breakfast—the graceful white crane of Mexico was wading about, flapping her wings, to drive the small fish into shoaler water, where she might pick them up at her leisure—the gaudy Spanish ensign, resembling ...

— An Old Sailor's Yarns • Nathaniel Ames

... still warm. He had an hour at least before the servants would be stirring. He was terribly cold and pretty well exhausted, and the comfort of his big chair and the glow of the fire carried him off irresistibly into a doze—a doze that was troubled by ...

— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster

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