Слово "nod". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

head nods, affection, interest, shared humor

'"Who controls the present controls the past,"' said O'Brien, nodding his head with slow approval. 'Is it your opinion, Winston, that the past has real existence?'

"We are talking about poor Dartmoor, Lord Henry," cried the Duchess, nodding pleasantly to him across the table. "Do you think he will really marry this fascinating young person?"

With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old.

They sigh one unto the other in that solitude, and stretch towards the heaven their long and ghastly necks, and nod to and fro their everlasting heads.

Palmetto fans were wagging more slowly, and several gentlemen were nodding from the heat and overloaded stomachs.

With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old.

"You understand that is your right and how it should be done," Golz went on, looking at him and nodding his head.

When he returned to his desk Archer nodded at the hundred-dollar bills there, growled complacently,

“To smoke,” he answered. “It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won’t speak to me for fifty minutes.” He curled himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put his pipe down upon the mantelpiece.

and he would sort of nod off

I nod off, I wake up in strange places.