slumber

SLUM'BER, verb intransitive


1. To sleep lightly; to doze. He that keepth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Psalms 121:4.


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


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


SLUM'BER, verb transitive


1. To lay to sleep.


2. To stun; to stupefy. [Little used and hardly legitimate.]


SLUM'BER, noun


1. Light sleep; sleep not deep or sound. From carelessness it shall settle into slumber and from slumber it shall settle into a deep and long sleep.


2. Sleep; repose.


Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes.


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