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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Roost :: Roost (v. i.) Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
Awake :: Awake (v. i.) To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death..
Doziness :: Doziness (n.) The state of being dozy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.
Cross-tie :: Cross-tie (n.) A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place..
Supersubstantial :: Superstructure (n.) The sleepers, and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed..
Somnipathy :: Somnipathy (n.) Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like..
Sleepwaking :: Sleepwaking (n.) The state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep..
Mesmerize :: Mesmerize (v. t.) To bring into a state of mesmeric sleep.
Dormant :: Dormant (a.) Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles..
Consopite :: Consopite (v. t.) To lull to sleep; to quiet; to compose.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person..
Sleepiness :: Sleepiness (n.) The quality or state of being sleepy.
Repose :: Repose (v.) A lying at rest; sleep; rest; quiet.
Slumber :: Slumber (n.) Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose..
Bundle :: Bundle (v. i.) To sleep on the same bed without undressing; -- applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping..
Surrender :: Surrender (v. t.) To yield to any influence, emotion, passion, or power; -- used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep..
Lullaby :: lullaby (v. t.) A song to quiet babes or lull them to sleep; that which quiets.
"dormant :: Dormant (a.) A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or sleep..
Hypnotism :: Hypnotism (n.) A form of sleep or somnambulism brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual activity of others. It is induced by an action upon the nerves, through the medium of the senses, as in persons of very feeble organization, by gazing steadly at a very bright object held before the eyes, or by pressure upon certain points of the surface of the body..
Prostrate :: Prostrate (a.) Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate..
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