Slumber

v. i. [imp. & p. p. SLUMBERED; p. pr. & vb. n. SLUMBERING.] [O. Eng. slomber, slomer, A-S. slumerian, D. sluimeren, M. H. Ger. slummern, slumen, N. H. Ger. schlummern, Dan. slumre, Sw. slumra; A-S. sluma, slumber, Icel. slyma, to remain at ease. See SLOOM.]

1Sense 1. To sleep lightly; to dose. He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Ps. cxxi. 4.

2Sense 2. To sleep. Slumber is used as synonymous with sleep, particularly in the poetic and eloquent style.

3Sense 3. To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity. “Why slumbers Pope?” Young.

1Sense 1. To lay to sleep. 2. To stun; to stupefy. [Rare.] Wotton.

Light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose. “Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes.” Dryden.

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.