Doze \Doze\ (d[=o]z), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dozed} (d[=o]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Dozing}.] [Prob. akin to daze, dizzy: cf. Icel. d[=u]sa to doze, Dan. d["o]se to make dull, heavy, or drowsy, d["o]s dullness, drowsiness, d["o]sig drowsy, AS. dw[=ae]s dull, stupid, foolish. [root]71. Cf. {Dizzy}.] To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy.
If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him. --L'Estrange.
Doze \Doze\, v. t. 1. To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one's time.
2. To make dull; to stupefy. [Obs.]
I was an hour . . . in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work. --Pepys.
They left for a long time dozed and benumbed. --South.
Doze \Doze\, n. A light sleep; a drowse. --Tennyson.
Men doze at tables laden with spices.
Some demonstrators doze against a tree.
Dozens of uniformed tots, segregated by age, doze in separate cots.