Doze

v. i. [imp. & p. p. DOZED (dōzd); p. pr. & vb. n. DOZING.] [Dan. döse, to make dull, heavy, or drowsy, dös, dullness, drowsiness, dösig, drowsy, A-S. dwæs, dwæsig, dysig, dull, stupid, foolish; Icel. das, weariness, dasaz, to be weary. Cf. DAZE.] 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.

Chiefless armies dozed out the campaign. Pope.

v. t. 1. To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one's time. 2. To make dull; to stupefy. [Obs.]

I was an hour . . . in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work. Pepys.

They left him for a long time dozed and benumbed. South.

n. A light sleep; a drowse. Tennyson.