Definition of sleep

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Sleep (v. i.) To be dead; to lie in the grave.

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Wink :: Wink (v. i.) To nod; to sleep; to nap.
Lodge :: Lodge (n.) To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold..
Dwale :: Dwale (a.) A sleeping potion; an opiate.
Oversleep :: Oversleep (v. t.) To sleep beyond; as, to oversleep one's self or one's usual hour of rising..
Dozy :: Dozy (a.) Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head..
Awakening :: Awakening (n.) The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual..
Mesmerize :: Mesmerize (v. t.) To bring into a state of mesmeric sleep.
Hypnotic :: Hypnotic (n.) Any agent that produces, or tends to produce, sleep; an opiate; a soporific; a narcotic..
Lie :: Lie (adj.) To lodge; to sleep.
Sleepyhead :: Sleepyhead (n.) A sleepy person.
A- :: A- () A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofd/ne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English
Nappy :: Nappy (a.) Inclined to sleep; sleepy; as, to feel nappy..
Opiate :: Opiate (n.) Any medicine that contains opium, and has the quality of inducing sleep or repose; a narcotic..
Sleep-at-noon :: Sleep-at-noon (n.) A plant (Tragopogon pratensis) which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard.
Walk :: Walk (v. i.) To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter..
Slumber :: Slumber (n.) Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose..
Wake :: Wake (v. i.) To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One of the pieces of timber, stone, or iron, on or near the level of the ground, for the support of some superstructure, to steady framework, to keep in place the rails of a railway, etc.; a stringpiece..
Interminate :: Interminate (a.) Endless; as, interminate sleep..
Cross-tie :: Cross-tie (n.) A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place..
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