intransitive verb. To lower and raise the head quickly, as in agreement or acknowledgment.

intransitive verb. To let the head fall forward when sleepy.

intransitive verb. To be careless or momentarily inattentive as if sleepy; lapse.

intransitive verb. To sway, move up and down, or droop, as flowers in the wind.

intransitive verb. To lower and raise (the head) quickly in agreement or acknowledgment.

intransitive verb. To express by lowering and raising the head.

intransitive verb. To summon, guide, or send by nodding the head.

noun. A forward or up-and-down movement of the head, usually expressive of drowsiness or agreement.

noun. An indication of approval or assent.

noun. A nomination for an award.

phrasal verb. To doze momentarily.

phrasal verb. To fall asleep, especially as a result of taking a drug.

noun. A short, quick, forward and downward motion of the head, either voluntary, as when used as a familiar salutation, a sign of assent or approbation, or given as a signal, command, etc., or involuntary, as when one is drowsy or sleepy.

noun. A quick forward or downward inclination of the upper part or top of anything.

To incline or droop the head forward with a short, quick, involuntary motion, as when drowsy or sleepy; specifically, in botany, to droop or curve downward by a short bend in the peduncle: said of flowers. See nodding, p. a.

Figuratively, to be guilty of a lapse or inadvertence, as when nodding with drowsiness.

To salute, beckon, or express assent by a slight, quick inclination of the head.

To bend or incline the top or part corresponding to the head with a quick jerky motion, simulating the nodding of a drowsy person.

To incline or bend, as the head or top.

To signify by a nod: as, to nod assent.

To affect by a nod or nods in a manner expressed by a word or words connected: as, to nod one out of the room; to nod one's head off.

intransitive verb. To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion.

intransitive verb. 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.

intransitive verb. To be careless or inattentive; to make a mistake from lack of attention.

intransitive verb. To be drowsy or dull; to doze off, especially while in a sitting position.

noun. A dropping or bending forward of the upper part or top of anything.

noun. 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.

noun. sleep.

transitive verb. To incline or bend, as the head or top; to make a motion of assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness with.

transitive verb. To signify by a nod.

transitive verb. To cause to bend.

verb. To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.

verb. to sway, move up and down

verb. To gradually fall asleep.

verb. To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired

verb. To head; to strike the ball with one's head.

verb. To allude to something.

verb. To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.

noun. An instance of moving one's head as described above.

noun. A reference or allusion to something.

verb. let the head fall forward through drowsiness

verb. express or signify by nodding

verb. lower and raise the head, as to indicate assent or agreement or confirmation

noun. a sign of assent or salutation or command

verb. sway gently back and forth, as in a nodding motion

verb. be almost asleep

noun. the act of nodding the head