drowse
To make (someone or something) heavy with sleepiness.
To pass (time) drowsily or in sleeping; also, to proceed (on a way) sleepily.
(figurative) To make (someone or something) dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
To be sleepy; to be half-asleep.
[T]he Cohort bright / Of watchful Cherubim; four faces each / Had, like a double Janus, all thir shape / Spangl'd with eyes more numerous then those / Of Argus, and more wakeful then to drouze, […]
(figurative) To be dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
An act, or a state, of being sleepy.
On a sudden, many a voice along the street, / And heel against the pavement echoing, burst / Their drowze; […]
(figurative) A state of dullness or inactivity, as if from sleepiness.