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[syn: cernuous, drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Nod \Nod\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nodded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Nodding.]
1. To incline or bend, as the head or top; to make a motion
of assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness with; as, to
nod the head.
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2. To signify by a nod; as, to nod approbation.
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3. To cause to bend. [Poetic]
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By every wind that nods the mountain pine. --Keats.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Nodding \Nod"ding\, a.
Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent
downward.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
nodding
adj 1: having branches or flower heads that bend downward;
"nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping
willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant
flowers" [syn: cernuous, drooping, nodding,
pendulous, weeping]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "nodding":
absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, anesthetized, asleep,
bagging, baggy, ballooning, bemused, castle-building, casual,
cataleptic, comatose, daydreaming, daydreamy, distant, doped, dozy,
dreaming, dreamy, drooping, droopy, drowsing, drowsy, drugged,
drugged with sleep, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed, faraway,
floppy, goofing off, half asleep, half-awake, heavy,
heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, in a reverie, in a stupor,
in the clouds, incautious, incomplete, languid, lethargic, limp,
loose, lop, lop-eared, loppy, lost, lost in thought, meditative,
mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, narcoleptic,
narcose, narcotized, narcous, oblivious, off-guard, oscitant,
out of it, pensive, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, rapt, sagging,
sagging in folds, saggy, sedated, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk,
sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful, sleeping, sleepy, slight,
slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somewhere else, somnolent, soporific,
stargazing, stretchy, stuporose, stuporous, superficial, swag,
taken up, transported, unalert, uncautious, unconscious, unguarded,
unprepared, unready, unvigilant, unwary, unwatchful, woolgathering,
wrapped in thought, yawning, yawny