| 单词 | dover |
| 释义 | ▪ I. dover, v. Sc. and north. dial.|ˈdəʊvə(r)|
[app. a frequentative of dial. dove in same sense; cf. OE. dofung dotage, also ON. dofna, Goth. daubnan, to become heavy, flat, or dead.]
1. trans. To send off into a light slumber; to stun, stupefy. rare.
(But in first quot. it may be pa. pple. of the intr. sense.)
1513Douglas æneis vi. vi. 12 This is the hald rycht Of Gaistis, Schaddois, Sleip, and douerit Nycht. 1853Fraser's Mag. XLVIII. 695 The powder that dovers the unhappy off to sleep.
2. intr. ‘To slumber, to be in a state betwixt sleeping and waking’ (Jam.), to doze.
1806A. Douglas Poems 139 (Jam.) She was begun to dover. 1826Scott Jrnl. 10 Dec., With great intervals of drowsiness and fatigue which made me, as we Scots say, dover away in my arm-chair. 1892in Northumbld. Gloss.
▪ II. ˈdover, n. Sc. and north. dial.
[f. prec. vb.]
‘A slumber, a slight unsettled sleep’ (Jam.)
1820Blackw. Mag. Nov. 203 (Jam.) My mother had laid down ‘th' Afflicted Man's Companion’, with which she had read the guidman into a sort o' dover. 1880J. F. S. Gordon Bk. Chron. Keith 32 Get a dover in the day time. |
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