Hypertext Webster Gateway: "slumber"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Slumber \Slum"ber\, v. t.
1. To lay to sleep. [R.] --Wotton.
2. To stun; to stupefy. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Slumber \Slum"ber\, n.
Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or
sound; repose.
He at last fell into a slumber, and thence into a fast
sleep, which detained him in that place until it was
almost night. --Bunyan.
Fast asleep? It is no matter; Enjoy the honey-heavy dew
of slumber. --Shak.
Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Slumber \Slum"ber\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slumbered}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Slumbering}.] [OE. slombren, slumberen, slumeren, AS.
slumerian, fr. sluma slumber; akin to D. sluimeren to
slumber, MHG. slummern, slumen, G. schlummern, Dan. slumre,
Sw. slumra, Goth. slawan to be silent.]
1. To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze. --Piers
Plowman.
He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor
sleep. --Ps. cxxi. 4.
2. To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or
inactivity. ``Why slumbers Pope?'' --Young.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
slumber
n 1: a natural and periodic state of rest during which
consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn't get
enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless
slumber" [syn: {sleep}]
2: a dormant or quiescent state
v : be asleep [syn: {sleep}, {kip}, {log Z's}, {catch some Z's}]
[ant: {wake}]
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