Part 3437

<h1>Doyly</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Doy"ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Doily</er>.</def>

<h1>Doze</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Doze</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dozed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dozing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Prob. akin to <ets>daze</ets>, <ets>dizzy</ets>: cf. Icel. <ets>d<?/sa</ets> to doze, Dan. <ets>d\'94se</ets> to make dull, heavy, or drowsy, <ets>d\'94s</ets> dullness, drowsiness, <ets>d\'94sig</ets> drowsy, AS. <ets>dw<?/s</ets> dull, stupid, foolish. <?/<?/<?/. Cf. <er>Dizzy</er>.]</ety> <def>To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy.</def>

<blockquote>If he happened to <b>doze</b> a little, the jolly cobbler waked him. <i>L'Estrange.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Doze</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Doze</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To pass or spend in drowsiness; <as>as, to <ex>doze</ex> away one's time</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To make dull; to stupefy.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>I was an hour . . . in casting up about twenty sums, being <b>dozed</b> with much work. <i>Pepys.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>They left for a long time <b>dozed</b> and benumbed. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Doze</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Doze</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A light sleep; a drowse.</def>

<i>Tennyson.</i>

<h1>Dozen</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Doz"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Dozen</plw> (before another noun), <plw>Dozens</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>. <ety>[OE. <ets>doseine</ets>, <ets>dosein</ets>, OF. <ets>doseine</ets>, F. <ets>douzaine</ets>, fr. <ets>douze</ets> twelve, fr. L. <ets>duodecim</ets>; <ets>duo</ets> two + <ets>decem</ets> ten. See <er>Two</er>, <er>Ten</er>, and cf. <er>Duodecimal</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without <i>of</i> before the substantive which follows.</def> "Some six or seven <i>dozen</i> of Scots." "A <i>dozen</i> of shirts to your back." "A <i>dozen</i> sons." "Half a <i>dozen</i> friends."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An indefinite small number.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<cs><col>A baker's dozen</col>, <cd>thirteen; -- called also a <altname>long dozen</altname>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Dozenth</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Doz"enth</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Twelfth.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Dozer</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Doz"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who dozes or drowses.</def>

<h1>Doziness</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Doz"i*ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being dozy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.</def>

<h1>Dozy</h1> <Xpage=449>

<hw>Doz"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; <as>as, a <ex>dozy</ex> head</as>.</def>