Definition of Slumbry

1. sleepy [adj] - See also: sleepy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slumbry

slumber parties
slumber party
slumbered
slumberer
slumberers
slumbering
slumberingly
slumberland
slumberless
slumberlike
slumberous
slumbers
slumbery
slumbre
slumbrous
slumbry (current term)
slumdog
slumdogs
slumgullions
slumgum
slumgums
slumism
slumisms
slumlike
slumlord
slumlords
slummed
slummer
slummers

Literary usage of Slumbry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Synonymes Classified and Explained: With Practical Exercises by George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed (1847)
"In this slumbry agitation, besides her walking and other actual perform* Slices, &c. Macbeth, f. 1. Cor. or must omit Real necessities Coriolanus, iii. ..."

2. English Synonymes Classified and Explained: With Practical Exercises by George Frederick Graham (1867)
"In this slumbry agitation, besides her walking and other actual performances, &c. Macbeth, VI Cor. • or must omit Real necessities Coriolanus, Hi, ..."

3. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1883)
"Alone, with no confidante, in marble silence she suffers ; insanity results; and now, in " slumbry agitation," she is doomed to ..."

4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"slumbry. Sleepy. Palsgrave. SLUMP. Wet boggy earth ; wet mud. Also, to slip down into slump. Far. dial. SLUNK. Grose tells us, as a superstition, ..."

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