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Definition of Drowsing
1. Adjective. Half asleep. "The nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair"
Definition of Drowsing
1. Verb. (present participle of drowse) ¹
2. Noun. The condition of being drowsy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Drowsing
1. drowse [v] - See also: drowse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drowsing
Literary usage of Drowsing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Star-glow and Songby Charles Buxton Going by Charles Buxton Going (1909)
"THE drowsing GODS ASTIR Ah, no! That is his sly deceit; He blows the very pipes
of Pan! The wild half-gods awake to-day; A faun has tracked yon square of ..."
2. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"The bats wheel swift aloft— Dusk-winged shadows, silent, bodiless ; The drowsing
leaves above us scarcely quiver, The tall grass ..."
3. Putnam's Magazine (1907)
"He All through the day he lay,drowsing and Awaking, drowsing and waking, turning
lazily in his blanket, rising only when his fire fell low or when returning ..."
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