SOMNOLENT

Som″no‐lent (?), a. [[F. somnolent, L. somnolentus, from somnus sleep, akin to Gr. �, Skr. svapna sleep, dream, svap to sleep, Icel. sofa, AS. swefn sleep. Cf. Hypnotic, Somnambulism, Soporific.]] Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep. — Som″no‐lent‐ly, adv. He had no eye for such phenomena, because he had a somnolent want of interest in them. De Quincey.