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Wake :: Wake (n.) The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil..

Roost :: Roost (v. i.) To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch..

Bed :: Bed (n.) An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs..

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..

Lethargy :: Lethargy (n.) Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked..

Sleep :: Sleep (v. i.) To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly..

"dormant :: Dormant (a.) A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or sleep..

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) That which lies dormant, as a law..

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

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

Nappy :: Nappy (a.) Inclined to sleep; sleepy; as, to feel nappy..

Participle :: Participle (n.) A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles..

Wake :: Wake (v. t.) To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive..

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..

Drowsy :: Drowsy (superl.) Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy.

Sleepwalking :: Sleepwalking (n.) Walking in one's sleep.

Somnambulation :: Somnambulation (n.) The act of walking in sleep.

Narcotic :: Narcotic (n.) A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium..

Dormitive :: Dormitive (n.) A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific; an opiate.

Sleep :: Sleep (v. i.) To be dead; to lie in the grave.

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