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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..

Mare :: Mare (n.) Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare..

Sopition :: Sopition (n.) The act of putting to sleep, or the state of being put to sleep; sleep..

Sandman :: Sandman (n.) A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them..

Longitudinal :: Longitudinal (n.) A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.

Mara :: Mara (n.) A female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions..

Consopite :: Consopite (a.) Lulled to sleep.

Watch :: Watch (v. i.) The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night..

Incubation :: Incubation (n.) A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams.

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..

Rouse :: Rouse (v.) To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly..

Sleeping :: Sleeping () a. & n. from Sleep.

Awake :: Awake (v. t.) To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties..

Vampire :: Vampire (n.) A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730..

Dream :: Dream (n.) To have ideas or images in the mind while in the state of sleep; to experience sleeping visions; -- often with of; as, to dream of a battle, or of an absent friend..

Oscitant :: Oscitant (a.) Sleepy; drowsy; dull; sluggish; careless.

Sleepy :: Sleepy (n.) Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.

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

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

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

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