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napping

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Nap  \Nap\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Napped};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Napping}.]  [OE.  nappen,  AS  hn[ae]ppian  to  take  a  nap,  to 
  slumber;  cf  AS  hnipian  to  bend  one's  self  Icel.  hnipna 
  hn[=i]pa,  to  droop.] 
  1.  To  have  a  short  sleep;  to  be  drowsy;  to  doze.  --Chaucer. 
 
  2.  To  be  in  a  careless,  secure  state.  --Wyclif. 
 
  I  took  thee  napping,  unprepared.  --Hudibras. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Napping  \Nap"ping\,  n. 
  1.  The  act  or  process  of  raising  a  nap,  as  on  cloth. 
 
  2.  (Hat  Making)  A  sheet  of  partially  felted  fur  before  it  is 
  united  to  the  hat  body.  --Knight. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  napping 
  adj  1:  not  prepared  or  vigilant;  "the  blow  caught  him  napping"; 
  "caught  in  an  off-guard  moment";  "found  him  off  his 
  guard"  [syn:  {off-guard(a)},  {off  guard(p)},  {off 
  one's  guard(p)},  {off  his  guard},  {off  her  guard},  {off 
  your  guard}] 
  2:  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"  [syn:  {drowsy},  {drowsing(a)},  {dozy}, 
  {dozing(a)},  {napping(a)},  {nodding(a)}]




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