Crabbe’s etymology of doze under this word is exquisite:—
“Doze, a variation from the French dors and the Latindormio (to sleep), which was anciently dermio, and comes from the Greekderma (a skin), because people lay on skins when they slept”!—Synonyms.
To sleep away. To pass away in sleep, to consume in sleeping; as, to sleep one’s life away.
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