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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bulldozed p. pr. & vb. n. Bulldozing. ] To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana. [ Slang, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who bulldozes. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. A light sleep; a drowse. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Dozed p. pr. & vb. n. Dozing. ] [ Prob. akin to daze, dizzy: cf. Icel. dūsa to doze, Dan. döse to make dull, heavy, or drowsy, dös dullness, drowsiness, dösig drowsy, AS. dw&aemacr_;s dull, stupid, foolish. √71. Cf. Dizzy. ] To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one's time. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make dull; to stupefy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I was an hour . . . in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work. Pepys. [ 1913 Webster ]

They left for a long time dozed and benumbed. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Dozen (before another noun), Dozens [ OE. doseine, dosein, OF. doseine, F. douzaine, fr. douze twelve, fr. L. duodecim; duo two + decem ten. See Two, Ten, and cf. Duodecimal. ] 1. A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows. “Some six or seven dozen of Scots.” “A dozen of shirts to your back.” “A dozen sons.” “Half a dozen friends.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An indefinite small number. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A baker's dozen, thirteen; -- called also a long dozen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Twelfth. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who dozes or drowses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being dozy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ √71. ] Stupid; heavy. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell.

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'e`ndon within + zw^, on an animal. ] (Zoöl.) See Entozoa. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Living within a living animal, usually as a parasite; as, endozoic worms. Contrasted with epizoic.
Syn. -- entozoic, entozoan. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Hopper (as in grasshopper) + doze or dose; because conceived as putting insects to sleep or as dosing them with poison. ] (Agric.) An appliance for the destruction of insects, consisting of a shallow iron box, containing kerosene or coated with tar or other sticky substance, which may be mounted on wheels. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]