Verb (used with object) : He drowsed away the morning. From Dictionary.com.
The wrinkled old farmer looked up from his drowse. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?. From Wordnik.com. [2008 » June] Reference
Cat M-mv, seven, prefers to drowse among the books. From Wordnik.com. [The under-ten set in Family M-mv] Reference
Some again tried to drink themselves into a drowse. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
He closed his eyes and began to drowse contentedly. From Wordnik.com. [King Rat]
Or I shall drowse beside thee, so my soul doth ache. From Wordnik.com. [The Wayward Muse] Reference
At that, one of them woke from his drowse with interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloody Crown of Conan]
With a drowse of orient perfume drenched in light and heat. From Wordnik.com. [Lundy's Lane and Other Poems] Reference
It can also kill you if you drowse while running the engine. From Wordnik.com. [Survival Tips for Living Through a Snowstorm in Your Truck] Reference
Where the fat black serpents drowse I gather the Upas blooms. From Wordnik.com. [People of the Dark]
Puffed up on prednisone, I drowse, immune to most skirmishes. From Wordnik.com. [Wolves and Butterflies] Reference
He would drowse there, cooing to himself, the entire morning. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
Og perked up his own ears, but pretended to drowse from fatigue. From Wordnik.com. [Song of Time]
Jake had fallen into a drowse and didn't even know the man was there. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
And she cried to the Old World cities that drowse by the Eastern main. From Wordnik.com. [The California Birthday Book] Reference
"Thank you for waiting here for me in your great drowse, to greet me -". From Wordnik.com. [Prince of Chaos]
She was no sensualist, longing to drowse sleepily in the lap of luxury. From Wordnik.com. [Sister Carrie] Reference
It wasn't a large meal; they didn't want the dragons to be ready to drowse. From Wordnik.com. [Aerie]
But his mind drifted from this brief, pointless worry, and he began to drowse. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Queen]
Another movie followed, an action one this time, but she was starting to drowse. From Wordnik.com. [The Whisperers] Reference
"Huh," he said, when she'd begun to drowse a little under his gentle ministrations. From Wordnik.com. [Oathbreaker]
Families of the defendants sat in the back rows among beggars who had come to drowse. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
The noise of the train plunging into a long, dark tunnel startled him from his drowse. From Wordnik.com. [Cyberbooks]
Around them prisoners of war load bodies onto wagons and sailors drowse over their guns. From Wordnik.com. [Memory Wall] Reference
As it was, the noise and lights blew him out of a half-drowse into hair-raised wakefulness. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
While the dapplegray dawn drags nearing nigh for to wake all droners that drowse in Dublin. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
I started to drowse as I thought about the President's speech, and just as quickly I was out. From Wordnik.com. [The Godzilla Amendment] Reference
He clucked to the old horse, which awoke out of its drowse with a start, and moved on sluggishly. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
After a while they began to drowse, until one by one the little groups became quiet and fell asleep. From Wordnik.com. [Buffalo Roost] Reference
Here he began to drowse, still murmuring incoherently, 'Man, I tell you ... for the soul of Julina. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
He read the scenario again, and began to drowse over it, staring out at the dying elms beyond the lawn. From Wordnik.com. [War Game]
I sometimes drowse off with the bottle in my hand, which seems to keep her away. From Wordnik.com. [Ask MetaFilter] Reference
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