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Definition of sleep

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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..

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Outsleep :: Outsleep (v. t.) To exceed in sleeping.

Somnolency :: Somnolency (n.) Sleepiness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.

Drowse :: Drowse (v. t.) To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid.

Dormitory :: Dormitory (n.) A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school..

Stringer :: Stringer (n.) A longitudinal sleeper.

Slumberous :: Slumberous (a.) Being in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy.

Antihypnotic :: Antihypnotic (a.) Tending to prevent sleep.

Sleepy :: Sleepy (n.) Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion..

Refresh :: Refresh (a.) To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to reanimate; as, sleep refreshes the body and the mind..

Sleepyhead :: Sleepyhead (n.) The ruddy duck.

Hypnosis :: Hypnosis (n.) Supervention of sleep.

Uphasp :: Uphasp (v. t.) To hasp or faster up; to close; as, sleep uphasps the eyes..

Hypnotic :: Hypnotic (a.) Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific.

Cry :: Cry (v. t.) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep..

Somnambulism :: Somnambulism (n.) A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions approppriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.

Somnific :: Somnific (a.) Causing sleep; somniferous.

Sandman :: Sandman (n.) A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them..

Somnial :: Somnial (a.) Of or pertaining to sleep or dreams.

Sopor :: Sopor (n.) Profound sleep from which a person can be roused only with difficulty.

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..