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slumber

slumber is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.2. To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity. "Why slumbers Pope" Young.
  2. 2.To lay to sleep. [R.] Wotton.
  3. 3.To stun; to stupefy. [Obs.] Spenser.
  4. 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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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