Definition of sleep

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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..

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Interminate :: Interminate (a.) Endless; as, interminate sleep..
Incubation :: Incubation (n.) A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams.
Somniloquence :: Somniloquence (n.) The act of talking in one's sleep; somniloquism.
Night :: Night (n.) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep..
Somnolent :: Somnolent (a.) Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep.
Slumberless :: Slumberless (a.) Without slumber; sleepless.
Litter :: Litter (v. i.) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
Sandman :: Sandman (n.) A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them..
Dormant :: Dormant (a.) In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant..
Somniferous :: Somniferous (a.) Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion..
Siesta :: Siesta (n.) A short sleep taken about the middle of the day, or after dinner; a midday nap..
Chair :: Chair (n.) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.
Lodging :: Lodging (n.) A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning..
Hypnology :: Hypnology (n.) A treatise on sleep; the doctrine of sleep.
Stirring :: Stirrer (n.) One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer..
Magnetical :: Magnetical (a.) Having, susceptible to, or induced by, animal magnetism, so called; as, a magnetic sleep. See Magnetism..
Sing :: Sing (v. t.) To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep..
"dormant :: Dormant (a.) A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or sleep..
Swich :: Sweven (n.) A vision seen in sleep; a dream.
Wake :: Wake (v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awake.
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