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

Comatose :: Comatose (a.) Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever..

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

Drowse :: Drowse (v. i.) To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze.

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A large fresh-water gobioid fish (Eleotris dormatrix).

Intersomnious :: Intersomnious (a.) Between the times of sleeping; in an interval of wakefulness.

Sleep :: Sleep (v. i.) To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber..

Mesmerical :: Mesmerical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or induced by, mesmerism; as, mesmeric sleep..

Corybantiasm :: Corybantiasm (n.) A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep.

Dwale :: Dwale (a.) A sleeping potion; an opiate.

Stagger :: Stagger (n.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers..

Asleep :: Asleep (a. & adv.) Numbed, and, usually, tingling..

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..

Dormitive :: Dormitive (a.) Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium..

Dozy :: Dozy (a.) Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head..

Swich :: Sweven (n.) A vision seen in sleep; a dream.

Somniloquous :: Somniloquous (a.) Apt to talk in sleep.

Somniloquence :: Somniloquence (n.) The act of talking in one's sleep; somniloquism.

Slumber :: Slumber (v. i.) To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze..

Hypnology :: Hypnology (n.) A treatise on sleep; the doctrine of sleep.