Meaning of Drowse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An act, or a state, of being drowsy or sleepy.
2. A state of dullness or inactivity, as if from sleepiness.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“in a drowse”

“He saw his mother's face, accepting it / In change for heaven itself, with such a smile / As might have been learnt there,—never moved, / But smiled on, in a drowse of ecstasy, / So happy (half with her and half with heaven) / He could not have the trouble to be stirred, / But smiled and lay there.”

“On a sudden, many a voice along the street, / And heel against the pavement echoing, burst / Their drowze; […]”

“Here, in this latest August dawn, / By windows opening on the lawn, / Where shadows yet are sharp with night, / And sunshine seems asleep, though bright; / And, further on, the wealthy wheat / Bends in a golden drowse, how sweet / To sit, and cast my careless looks / Around my walls of well-read books, […]”

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