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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Slumber  \Slum"ber\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Slumbered};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Slumbering}.]  [OE.  slombren  slumberen,  slumeren  AS 
  slumerian,  fr  sluma  slumber;  akin  to  D.  sluimeren  to 
  slumber,  MHG.  slummern  slumen,  G.  schlummern  Dan.  slumre 
  Sw  slumra  Goth.  slawan  to  be  silent.] 
  1.  To  sleep;  especially,  to  sleep  lightly;  to  doze.  --Piers 
  Plowman. 
 
  He  that  keepeth  Israel  shall  neither  slumber  nor 
  sleep.  --Ps.  cxxi.  4. 
 
  2.  To  be  in  a  state  of  negligence,  sloth,  supineness,  or 
  inactivity.  ``Why  slumbers  Pope?''  --Young. 




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