bedrowse

== English == === Etymology === From be- +‎ drowse. === Verb === bedrowse (third-person singular simple present bedrowses, present participle bedrowsing, simple past and past participle bedrowsed) To make drowsy. 1835, William Wordsworth, “Picture of Daniel in the Lion’s Den, at Hamilton Place” in Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, p. 25,[1] Yet is the Prophet calm, nor would the cave Daunt him—if his Companions, now be-drowsed Yawning and listless, were by hunger roused: 1998, Aaron Kramer (editor and translator), The Last Lullaby: Poetry from the Holocaust, Syracuse University Press, p. 33,[4] A lullaby should cradle, quiet, calm, and bedrowse the child […]