Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dozing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Doze \Doze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dozed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Dozing}.] [Prob. akin to daze, dizzy: cf. Icel. d?sa to
doze, Dan. d["o]se to make dull, heavy, or drowsy, d["o]s
dullness, drowsiness, d["o]sig drowsy, AS. dw?s dull, stupid,
foolish. ???. Cf. {Dizzy}.]
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. --L'Estrange.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dozing
adj : half asleep; "made drowsy by the long ride"; "it seemed a
pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor"; "a
tired dozy child"; "the nodding (or napping)
grandmother in her rocking chair" [syn: {drowsy}, {drowsing(a)},
{dozy}, {dozing(a)}, {napping(a)}, {nodding(a)}]
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