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Drowsed
The Robert E. Howard Lexicon
© 2017 James LaFond
FEB/13/17
“Timour drowsed on his divan over maps and charts…”
-Lord of Samarcand
This particular story has more archaic, terse and little-used words of a mundane type than any of Howard’s other tales, marking this is a tall effort in placing the reader’s mind’s eye in a fantastical frame of reference.
1. drowse
[drouz]
VERB
1. be half asleep; doze intermittently:
synonyms: doze • nap • catnap • rest • snooze • •
• catch some Zs
 archaic
make sleepy.
 archaic
be sluggish or inactive:
ORIGIN
late 16th cent.: back-formation from drowsy.
RELATED FORMS
drowsed (past tense)
drowsed (past participle)
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