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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Lotus-eater

/(lō"tŭs-ēt`ẽr)/ · Lo·tus-eat·er · IPA
01 n. One who ate the fruit or leaf of the lotus, and, as a consequence, gave himself up to indolence and daydreams; one of the Lotophagi.
  1. 1.
    One who ate the fruit or leaf of the lotus, and, as a consequence, gave himself up to indolence and daydreams; one of the Lotophagi.(Class. Myth.)
    “The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters.” Tennyson.