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▪ I. doze, v.|dəʊz|
Also 7 doaze, 7–9 dose.
[Of late appearance in literary English; perh. earlier in dialects. The trans. sense, in which it is first known, is identical with Da. döse to make dull, heavy, drowsy (dös, dullness, drowsiness, dösig drowsy): cf. also rare ON. dúsa to doze, dús, dos, lull, dead calm, Sw. dial. dusa to doze, slumber.]
†1. trans. To stupefy; to muddle; to make drowsy or dull; to bewilder, confuse, perplex. Obs.
1647R. Stapylton Juvenal 122 'Tis work for great soules, not [for] one dos'd about the mending of his bed. 1650― Strada's Low C. Warres vi. 7 As night and suspicion doses the mind. a1656Hales Gold. Rem. (1688) 17 Easily doz'd and amazed with every Sophism. 1658R. Flecknoe Epigr. & Enigm. Char. (1665) 82 Whose Head is so doaz'd with knocking, and Breech hardened with whipping. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. vi, The tobacco had..dozed my head. Ibid. ii. i, The surgeon..gave him something to dose and put him to sleep. 1796Macneill Will & Jean ii. ix, Drams and drumming (faes to thinking) Dozed reflection fast asleep. 1818Moore Fudge Fam. Paris ii. 38 Your Lordship..when All sovereigns else were dozed, at last Speeched down the Sovereign of Belfast.
2. intr. To sleep drowsily; to fall into a light sleep unintentionally from drowsiness; to be half asleep; to nod. Also fig. So, to doze it (obs.).
1693W. Freke Sel. Ess. xxvii. 161 The best of us dose, dote, and Slumber at times. a1704R. L'Estrange (J.) There was no sleeping under his roof; if he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobler waked him. 1777Sheridan Sch. Scand. iv. iii, I have been dozing over a stupid book. 1880Ouida Moths II. 269 A place to doze and dream in.
fig.1855Tennyson Maud i. xxii. 48 The pimpernel dozed on the lea.
b. to doze off or doze over: to drop off into a doze.
1860Geo. Eliot Mill on Fl. i. 1 Before I dozed off, I was going to tell you [etc.]. 1886Stevenson Dr. Jekyll 19 The figure..haunted the lawyer all night; and if at any time he dozed over [etc.]. 1888E. J. Mather Nor'ard of Dogger 350, I was just dozed off myself when I was aroused by a cry from the deck.
3. trans. (with away, out). To pass or spend (time) in dozing.
1693R. Gould Corrupt. Times 14 We doze away our Hours. 1742Pope Dunc. iv. 617 Chiefless Armies doz'd out the Campaign. 1845Whewell in Todhunter's Acc. W.'s Wks. (1876) II. 330, I..dose away a few summer months almost in solitude.
▪ II. doze, n.
[f. prec. vb.]
A fit of dozing; a short slumber.
1731Lett. fr. Fog's Jrnl. (1732) II. 209 A Doze over his Coffee. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge vii, He fell into a doze again, and slept until the fire was quite burnt out. 1863Mrs. Oliphant Salem Ch. xiii. 224 Now and then he woke up, as men wake up from a doze.
▪ III. doze
obs. form of dose. |