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Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) That which lies dormant, as a law..

Participle :: Participle (n.) A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles..

Nightgown :: Nightgown (n.) A loose gown used for undress; also, a gown used for a sleeping garnment..

Waken :: Waken (v. i.) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.

Chair :: Chair (n.) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.

Oversleep :: Oversleep (v. t.) To sleep beyond; as, to oversleep one's self or one's usual hour of rising..

Somnambulation :: Somnambulation (n.) The act of walking in sleep.

Sleep :: Sleep (v. i.) A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state..

Dream :: Dream (v. t.) To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause..

Rest :: Rest (n.) Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death..

Lullaby :: lullaby (v. t.) A song to quiet babes or lull them to sleep; that which quiets.

Asleep :: Asleep (a. & adv.) In the sleep of the grave; dead.

Sleepwalker :: Sleepwalker (n.) One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.

Soporific :: Soporific (a.) Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium..

Berth :: Berth (n.) A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in..

Somniculous :: Somniculous (a.) Inclined to sleep; drowsy; sleepy.

Break :: Break (v. t.) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey..

Somnolent :: Somnolent (a.) Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep.

Wake :: Wake (v. i.) To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.

Noctambulation :: Noctambulation (n.) Somnambulism; walking in sleep.

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