Hypertext Webster Gateway: "napping"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Nap \Nap\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Napped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Napping}.] [OE. nappen, AS. hn[ae]ppian to take a nap, to
slumber; cf. AS. hnipian to bend one's self, Icel. hnipna,
hn[=i]pa, to droop.]
1. To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze. --Chaucer.
2. To be in a careless, secure state. --Wyclif.
I took thee napping, unprepared. --Hudibras.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Napping \Nap"ping\, n.
1. The act or process of raising a nap, as on cloth.
2. (Hat Making) A sheet of partially felted fur before it is
united to the hat body. --Knight.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
napping
adj 1: not prepared or vigilant; "the blow caught him napping";
"caught in an off-guard moment"; "found him off his
guard" [syn: {off-guard(a)}, {off guard(p)}, {off
one's guard(p)}, {off his guard}, {off her guard}, {off
your guard}]
2: 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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