Doze
Doze (dōz) , intransitive verb
[Probably akin to daze, dizzy: compare Icelandic dūsa to doze, Danish dose to make dull, heavy, or drowsy, dos dullness, drowsiness, dosig drowsy, Anglo-Saxon dwas dull, stupid, foolish. r71. Compare Dizzy.]
To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy.
If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him.
Doze , transitive verb
1.
To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one's time.
2.
To make dull; to stupefy. [Obsolete]
I was an hour... in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.
They left for a long time dozed and benumbed.
Doze , noun
A light sleep; a drowse. — Tennyson