Slumber
['slʌmbə] or ['slʌmbɚ]
Definition
(v. i.) To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze.
(v. i.) To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity.
(v. t.) To lay to sleep.
(v. t.) To stun; to stupefy.
(n.) Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose.
Edited by Hilda
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Sleep (lightly), doze, nap, snooze, lose one's self, take a nap, take a SIESTA.
n. Sleep (not deep or profound), repose, rest, doze, nap, light sleep.
Inputed by DeWitt
Definition
v.i. to sleep lightly: to sleep: to be in a state of negligence or inactivity.—n. light sleep: repose.—ns. Slum′berer; Slum′bering.—adv. Slum′beringly in a slumbering manner.—n. Slum′berland the state of slumber.—adjs. Slum′berless without slumber: sleepless; Slum′berous Slum′brous inviting or causing slumber; sleepy; Slum′bery sleepy: drowsy.
Editor: Milton
Examples
- Her hands lay on the paddle like slumber, she only wanted to see him, like a crystal shadow, to feel his essential presence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Then the fellow turned again upon his side and resumed the even respiration of deep slumber. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- She composed herself as if to slumber. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Oh, there is nothing more beautiful than slumber in the open air. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Having now composed his mind for slumber, he turned homeward. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Let them be this, let them be taken up entirely in their work, let them be perfect parts of a great machine, having a slumber of constant repetition. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Caroline, opening her eyes from a moment's slumber, viewed her nurse with an unrecognizing glance. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You looked pale in your slumbers: are you home-sick? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Pleasant slumbers! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- My slumbers, John Graham! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He was an added weariness upon her unripening nights, her unfruitful slumbers. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- My vengeance is awake, and she is a falcon that slumbers not till she has been gorged. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- You look the picture of innocence in your slumbers. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- All Argos slumbers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He cannot strike the noble slumbering chieftain. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He left the quiet, slumbering town at our mercy. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- At this Eustacia said, with slumbering mischievousness, What, would you exchange with him--your fortune for me? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But his wife's expostulations awoke his half-slumbering regrets; and Tom's manly disinterestedness increased the unpleasantness of his feelings. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A shock of heaven and earth is felt--not by the slumbering city, only by that lonely watcher, brave and unshaken in his fanaticism. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He was as if asleep, at peace, slumbering and utterly relaxed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- No one said anything, for fear of rousing Miss Halcombe, who was still slumbering, except the doctor, who whispered a question about the night. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And they went into the very room where Little Dorrit had slumbered after her party, to sign the Marriage Register. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She slumbered towards the afternoon, and I put away the book of drawings so that she might not see it when she woke. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Thus tranquillized and cherished she at last slumbered. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He knew nothing of us, for his senses were gone, and he slumbered on till next day, when he died. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- She kissed me, and I her, and we both soon slumbered. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Now every nest held happy mates, and hart and hind slumbered blissfully safe in their lair. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The fire went out, and all night long she slumbered thus before the ashy grate. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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