What does "slumber" mean?
Slumber: 2. To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity. "Why slumbers Pope" Young.
Additional senses
- 2.To lay to sleep. [R.] Wotton.
- 3.To stun; to stupefy. [Obs.] Spenser.
- 4.Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose. 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. Fast asleep It is no matter; Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. Shak. Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. Dryden.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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