Definition of sleep

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Sleep (v. t.) To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep..

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Corybantiasm :: Corybantiasm (n.) A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep.
Soporous :: Soporous (a.) Causing sleep; sleepy.
Lie :: Lie (adj.) To lodge; to sleep.
Unrest :: Unrest (n.) Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness; uneasiness; disquietude.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story..
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A sleeping car.
Nightmare :: Nightmare (n.) A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus..
Dogsleep :: Dogsleep (n.) Pretended sleep.
Slep :: Slep () imp. of Sleep. Slept.
Somniloquism :: Somniloquism (n.) The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy.
Mare :: Mare (n.) Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare..
Nightmare :: Nightmare (n.) A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A nurse shark. See under Nurse.
Sleepily :: Sleepily (adv.) In a sleepy manner; drowsily.
Watch :: Watch (v. i.) To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil.
Narcotic :: Narcotic (n.) A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium..
Soporiferous :: Soporiferous (a.) Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific.
Moonblink :: Moonblink (n.) A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia..
Dozy :: Dozy (a.) Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head..
Wakeful :: Wakeful (a.) Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant.
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