Definition of "doze"

doze¹

/doʊz/

verb
third-person singular simple present dozes, present participle dozing, simple past and past participle dozed
1. (intransitive) To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.
  Quotations
  If he Happen'd to Doze a little no and then in a Morning, the Jolly Cobbler Wak'd him.
  1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […]
2. (transitive) To make dull; to stupefy.
  Quotations
  I was an hour […] in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.
  1666, Samuel Pepys, diary dated 13 October, 1666
  They left for a long time (as it were) dozed and benumbed.
  October 29, 1693, Robert South, a sermon preached at Christ-church in Oxford before the university
3. (intransitive, slang) To bulldoze.
noun
plural dozes
1. A light, short sleep or nap.
  Quotations
  Others who conscientiously attended the Technical College at night often drooped over their desks in a doze, and one does not wonder at it.
  1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 285

doze²

/doʊz/

determiner
1. Pronunciation spelling of those.
  Quotations
  Donald Duck: I'll give you $20 for those old license plates on your fence posts!Other man: Hah? No chance! I bought dis house 'cause it has dis address! It's me lucky number! […] It was me prison number at Leavenworst and de winning number in de weekly parole lottery! I wudn't never sell doze plates!
  1987, Don Rosa, Recalled Wreck