Dictionary entry

Slumber (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Slum″ber, n. Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose.

He at last fell into a slumber, and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night. Bunyan.

Fast asleep? It is no matter;

Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber. Shak.

Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes. Dryden.