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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Noctambulation :: Noctambulation (n.) Somnambulism; walking in sleep.
Snooze :: Snooze (n.) A short sleep; a nap.
Roost :: Roost (v. i.) Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
Little :: Little (a.) Short in duration; brief; as, a little sleep..
Litter :: Litter (v. i.) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
Swich :: Sweven (n.) A vision seen in sleep; a dream.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A nurse shark. See under Nurse.
Sleep :: Sleep (v. t.) To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.
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..
Somniloquence :: Somniloquence (n.) The act of talking in one's sleep; somniloquism.
Hypnosis :: Hypnosis (n.) Supervention of sleep.
Lychnobite :: Lychnobite (n.) One who labors at night and sleeps in the day.
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..
Somniloquous :: Somniloquous (a.) Apt to talk in sleep.
Stirring :: Stirrer (n.) One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer..
Sandman :: Sandman (n.) A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them..
Drowse :: Drowse (n.) A slight or imperfect sleep; a doze.
Sleepiness :: Sleepiness (n.) The quality or state of being sleepy.
Awake :: Awake (v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.
Supersubstantial :: Superstructure (n.) The sleepers, and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed..
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