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Slumber   /slˈəmbər/   Listen
noun
Slumber  n.  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." "Fast asleep? It is no matter; Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber." "Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes."


verb
Slumber  v. t.  
1.
To lay to sleep. (R.)
2.
To stun; to stupefy. (Obs.)


Slumber  v. i.  (past & past part. slumbered; pres. part. slumbering)  
1.
To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze. "He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep."
2.
To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity. "Why slumbers Pope?"





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"Slumber" Quotes from Famous Books



... sweep is silent, when slumber is stealing over the weary eyelids, then traction engines, or steam-rollers, or some other scientific improvement on wheels begin to traverse the streets and shake the houses. This does not last more than a quarter of an hour, and then ...
— Lost Leaders • Andrew Lang
... forget my solemn vow. Be it so,—through danger and to death will I perform my duty, trusting to his mercy for a reward both here below and in heaven above. Am I not repaid for all that I have suffered? O yes, more than repaid," thought Philip, as, with a kiss, he disturbed the slumber of his wife, and met her full dark eyes fixed upon him, ...
— The Phantom Ship • Captain Frederick Marryat
... tear that sprang of joy and woe. Then duteous Rama forward came And stood before the honoured dame, And joining reverent hands addressed The queen in rank above the rest: "O mother, from these tears refrain; Look on my sire and still thy pain. To thee my days afar shall fly As if sweet slumber closed thine eye, And fourteen years of exile seem To thee, dear mother, like a dream. On me returning safe and well, Girt by my friends, thine ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI
... for that gentleman that the officer who now desired his attendance on the commandant had roused him from that Lethean slumber in which he had been, only a few ...
— Hardscrabble - The Fall of Chicago: A Tale of Indian Warfare • John Richardson
... morning she sinks into a slumber, but waking, finds the same images crowding all together upon her mind: she is doubtful to which to give the preference—one, however, rushes the foremost, and continues so. She knows not the fatal consequence of ruminating, nor ...
— A Simple Story • Mrs. Inchbald


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