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englanti A gentle sleep; slumber.
puhekieltä To sleep lightly, to doze, to nod; to be half-asleep.
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(ante) Jane Ermina Locke, "Elia", in The Recalled: In Voices of the Past, and Poems of the Ideal, James Munroe and Company (1854), http://books.google.com/books?id=EVUqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA193&dq=slooming page 193:
To his castle’s portal, / At the morning gloaming, / Bore they all the mortal / From the battle’s foaming, / Of the white bannered warrior knight, / Cold in his armor slooming!
1900, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The Maid of Maiden lane, Dodd, Mead and Company, http://books.google.com/books?id=HDdLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA181&dq=slooming page 181:
Then the doctor was slooming and nodding, and waking up and saying a word or two, and relapsing again into semi-unconsciousness.
1936, Esmond Quinterley, Ushering Interlude,http://books.google.com/books?id=Afe1LY5gZugC The Fortune Press, page 66:
The afternoon sun painted amber patterns on the Turkey red hearthrug: the only splash of colour in the dun room. Potter sloomed in the arms of the chair.
2001, Gemma O'Connor, Walking on Water,http://books.google.com/books?id=cotP0en1VYgC http://www.amazon.com/Walking-Water-Gemma-OConnor/dp/0515135976 Berkley Publishing Group (2003), ISBN 978-0-515-13597-8, page 205:
He lay slooming half-asleep, half-awake, thinking about Tuesday afternoon.
(qualifier) To soften or rot with damp.
(ante) unidentified young farmer, letter to his father, printed in Edinburgh Farmers’ Magazine 1807, reprinted in The Farmer’s Register, Volume 7, Number 9 (1839 September 30), http://books.google.com/books?id=XPchAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA540&dq=sloomed page 540:
He adds, that one hundred bolls, or fifty quarters of wheat may be thrashed in a day of eight hours, unless the grain has been sloomed or mildewed; (..)
1824 August, “Remarks on Captian Napier's Essay on Store-Farming”, in The Farmer’s Magazine, Volume XXV, Archibald Constable and Company (publishers), http://books.google.com/books?id=EagKAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA329&dq=sloomed page 329:
(..) no other spot over their whole pastured offered as much verdure at this time as these seemingly sloomed places.
(circa) Alexander J. Main, “Experiments with Special Manures”, in Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, W. Blackwood & Sons (1855), http://books.google.com/books?id=EZcZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA17&dq=slooming page 17:
It must be explained, however, that in the latter case the “slooming” of the crop had an injurious effect on its yield; (..)
sluggish, lifeless

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