drowsy, drowsing, dozy
(adjective) half asleep; “made drowsy by the long ride”; “it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor”; “a tired dozy child”; “the nodding (or napping) grandmother in her rocking chair”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
drowsing
present participle of drowse
drowsing (plural drowsings)
The act of one who drowses.
• swording, wordings
Source: Wiktionary
Drowse, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drowsed; p. pr. & vb. n. Drowsing.] Etym: [AS. dr, dr, to sink, become slow or inactive; cf. OD. droosen to be sleepy, fall asleep, LG. dr, druusken, to slumber, fall down with a noise; prob, akin to AS. dreĂłsan to fall. See Dreary.]
Definition: To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze. "He drowsed upon his couch." South. In the pool drowsed the cattle up to their knees. Lowell.
Drowse, v. t.
Definition: To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid. Milton.
Drowse, n.
Definition: A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze. But smiled on in a drowse of ecstasy. Mrs. Browning.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 July 2025
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
