Nod (?), v. i. [OE. nodden; cf. OHG. kntn, genuotn, to shake, and E. nudge.]
1.
To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes.
2.
To incline the head with a quick motion; to make a slight bow; to make a motion of assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness, with the head; as, to nod at one.
3.
To be drowsy or dull; to be careless.
Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
Pope.
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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.
2.
To signify by a nod; as, to nod approbation.
3.
To cause to bend.
[Poetic]
By every wind that nods the mountain pine.
Keats.
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Nod (?), n.
1.
A dropping or bending forward of the upper oart or top of anything.
Like a drunken sailor on a mast,
Ready with every nod to tumble down.
Shak.
2.
A quick or slight downward or forward motion of the head, in assent, in familiar salutation, in drowsiness, or in giving a signal, or a command.
A look or a nod only ought to correct them [the children] when they do amiss.
Locke.
Nations obey my word and wait my nod.
Prior.
The land of Nod, sleep.
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