sloom

A gentle sleep; slumber.

To sleep lightly, to doze, to nod; to be half-asleep.

The squire sloomed and slept in his chair; and finally, after a cup of tea, went to bed.

To his castle’s portal, / At the morning gloaming, / Bore they all the mortal / From the battle’s foaming, / Of the white bannered warrior knight, / Cold in his armor slooming!

To soften or rot with damp. (of plants or soil)

He adds, that one hundred bolls, or fifty quarters of wheat may be thrashed in a day of eight hours, unless the grain has been sloomed or mildewed; […]

[…] no other spot over their whole pastured offered as much verdure at this time as these seemingly sloomed places.