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• v  sleep lightly or for a short period of time
• v  be on the verge of sleeping
  The students were drowsing in the 8 AM class
• s  half asleep
  it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor

• Where 800 or so examples of Nashiana will set you briskly browsing Until you realize it's dawn and you realize you've been laughing but not sleeping, or even drowsing.
• One Newark trucking firm has equipped all its trucks with radios, on the theory that Stan keeps night drivers from drowsing.
• Depending on your age, the preceding list should have you either drowsing ("Dont know any of them") or drooling ("What wonderful songs and Warren wrote all of them?").

• snooze
• drowse
• doze
• drowsy
• dozy

News & Articles

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• Drat It: On a wintry night, a walk in the park it was not
  It was another frigid winter's night. I was reading and drowsing, not feeling particularly well.
  Jan. 27, 2014 - Coshocton Tribune