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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nodding \Nod"ding\, adjective Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nod \Nod\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
nodding
adjective: having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers" [syn: {cernuous}, {drooping}, {pendulous}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
nod
noun
1: a sign of assent or salutation or command
2: the act of nodding the head
verb
1: express or signify by nodding; "He nodded his approval"
2: lower and raise the head, as to indicate assent or agreement or confirmation; "The teacher nodded when the student gave the right answer"
3: let the head fall forward through drowsiness; "The old man was nodding in his chair"
4: sway gently back and forth, as is in a nodding motion; "the flowers were nodding in the breeze"
5: be almost asleep; "The old man sat nodding by the fireplace" [also: {nodding}, {nodded}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
nodding See {nod}
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "nodding": absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, anesthetized, asleep, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bemused, castle-building, casual, cataleptic, comatose, daydreaming, daydreamy, distant, doped, dozy, dreaming, dreamy, drooping, droopy, drowsing, drowsy, drugged, drugged with sleep, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed, faraway, floppy, goofing off, half asleep, half-awake, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, in a reverie, in a stupor, in the clouds, incautious, incomplete, languid, lethargic, limp, loose, lop, lop-eared, loppy, lost, lost in thought, meditative, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotized, narcous, oblivious, off-guard, oscitant, out of it, pensive, pipe-dreaming, preoccupied, rapt, sagging, sagging in folds, saggy, sedated, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful, sleeping, sleepy, slight, slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somewhere else, somnolent, soporific, stargazing, stretchy, stuporose, stuporous, superficial, swag, taken up, transported, unalert, uncautious, unconscious, unguarded, unprepared, unready, unvigilant, unwary, unwatchful, woolgathering, wrapped in thought, yawning, yawny
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