[See prec. and -ENCY.] = prec.
1623. Cockeram, I. Somnolencie, sleepinesse.
1727. in Bailey.
1810. Bentham, Packing (1821), 141. Symptoms of somnolency begin to discover themselves.
1859. R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geogr. Soc., XXIX. 285. It affects the head, prevents somnolency.
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 218. Prolonged nausea, and retching, interrupted only by intervals of dreamy delirious somnolency.
