Definition of "doze" []

• To sleep lightly and intermittently. (verb-intransitive)
• To spend (time) dozing or as if dozing: dozed the summer away. (verb-transitive)
• A short, light sleep. (noun)
• Doze off To fall into a light sleep. (phrasal-verb)
• To use a bulldozer; bulldoze. (verb-transitive)

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• "Then I fell into a light doze -- not exactly sleep, but a sort of _doze_ -- I can find no other word for it."
• "Call it rather a sort of beggarly day-dreaming, during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness, and a little mawkish sensibility; while the whole materiel and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects, and transmits the moving phantasms of one mans delirium, so as to people the barrenness of a hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose."
• "Coleridge's attack on the "beggarly daydreaming" of romance reading noted that "the whole material and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects and transmits the moving fantasms of one man's delirium, so as to people the barrenness of an hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose" (1975, 28)."