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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'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Doze" Quotes from Famous Books

... and dried sea weed which they set on fire by twirling a pointed stick in a wooden groove they had brought along with their food. After they had eaten, they stretched out lazily on the sand and talked until they began to doze ...

— The Princess Pocahontas • Virginia Watson

... and they his slaves. Two of them were stretched on the bare boards at the lower end of the pallet, and they were white. The third was a son of Ethiopia of unmixed blood and gigantic frame. He sat at the left of the couch, cross-legged, and, like the rest, was in a doze; now and then, however, he raised his head, and, without fully opening his eyes, shook a fan of peacock feathers from head to foot over the recumbent figure. The two whites were clad in gowns of coarse linen belted to their waists; while, ...

— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 1 • Lew. Wallace

... Blake. "Look! Even the waiters doze, until we come to wake them!" He handed her to the ground, gave his orders to the chauffeur, and as the cab disappeared into some unseen region, ...

— Max • Katherine Cecil Thurston

... with anxiety, the tension of two doctors in consultation, and a sense of hysteria that was always just a scratch beneath the surface of Mrs. Becker. She would break suddenly into loud and unexpected fits of crying, crushing her palms up against her mouth; would waken from a light doze beside the bed, on the shriek of a nightmare, and have literally to be dragged from the room. She harassed the doctors with questions that only the course ...

— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst

... The snow and the cold and the shrieking wind made rest an impossibility. They did doze, however, between times that they rose to cut more fuel for the ...

— The Snowshoe Trail • Edison Marshall

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