doziness

[Eng.dozy; -ne .] Drowsine , sleepine . "A man, by a violent fit of the gout in his limbs, finds a dozine in his head, or a want of appetite." - Looke: Human Understanding , bk. ii., ch. xxi. dōz-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [DOZE, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of slumbering; a doze, a light sleep. "Nor yet the dozings of the clerk are sweet, Compared with the repose the Sofa yields." Cowper: Task, i. 100, 101. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-0456.png:[blocks in formation] Chem.: The symbol used to denote the metal decipium (q. v.).