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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..

Syncopist :: Syncope (n.) A pause or cessation; suspension.

Apnoea :: Apnoea (n.) Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation.

Lunacy :: Lunacy (n.) A morbid suspension of good sense or judgment, as through fanaticism..

Cable :: Cable (n.) A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable..

Revive :: Revive (v. i.) To raise from coma, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension..

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook..

Armistice :: Armistice (n.) A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement; a truce..

Stupor :: Stupor (n.) Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.

Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To be fastened in such a manner as to allow of free motion on the point or points of suspension.

Filter :: Filter (n.) Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air..

Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing..

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition..

Swoon :: Swoon (v. i.) To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away..

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of the action or execution of law, etc.; as, the suspension of the habeas corpus act..

Preparation :: Preparation (n.) The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock. See Suspension..

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed..

Unifilar :: Unifilar (a.) Having only one thread; involving the use of only one thread, wire, fiber, or the like; as, unifilar suspension..

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank..

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