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Webster 1913 Edition


Slumbery

Slum′ber-y

,
Adj.
Sleepy.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Slumbery

SLUM'BEROUS

, SLUM'BERY,
Adj.
1.
Inviting or causing sleep; soporiferous. While pensive in the slumberous shade
2.
Sleep; not waking.

Definition 2024


slumbery

slumbery

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Adjective

slumbery (comparative more slumbery, superlative most slumbery)

  1. (obsolete) Sleepy, slumberous.
    • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Parson's Tale’, Canterbury Tales, Ellesmere ms.:
      thanne wexeth he slough and slombry and soone wol be wrooth [...].
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:
      In that same covert whereas lay / Faire Chrysogone in slombry traunce whilere [...].