2. Being in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy.

His quiet and almost slumberous countenance.

Hawthorne.

Slum"ber*y (?), a. Sleepy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Slum"brous (?), a. Slumberous. Keats.

Slum"ming, vb. n. Visiting slums.

Slump (?), n. [Cf. D. slomp a mass, heap, Dan. slump a quantity, and E.

slump, v.t.] The gross amount; the mass; the lump. [Scot.]

Slump, v. t. [Cf. Lump; also Sw. slumpa to bargain for the lump.] To

lump; to throw into a mess.

These different groups . . . are exclusively slumped together under

that sense.

Sir W. Hamilton.

Slump, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slumped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Slumping.]

[Scot. slump a dull noise produced by something falling into a hole, a

marsh, a swamp.] To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking

on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog,

etc., not strong enough to bear the person.

The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may

slump.

Barrow.

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