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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Consopite :: Consopite (a.) Lulled to sleep.
Somniloquism :: Somniloquism (n.) The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy.
Watch :: Watch (v. i.) To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil.
Walk :: Walk (v. i.) To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter..
Somnipathy :: Somnipathy (n.) Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like..
Sleep :: 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..
Hypnogenic :: Hypnogenic (a.) Relating to the production of hypnotic sleep; as, the so-called hypnogenic pressure points, pressure upon which is said to cause an attack of hypnotic sleep..
Pretend :: Pretend (v. i.) To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep..
Swich :: Sweven (n.) A vision seen in sleep; a dream.
Sleeping :: Sleeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slee.
Somnolent :: Somnolent (a.) Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep.
Insomnolence :: Insomnolence (n.) Sleeplessness.
Sing :: Sing (v. t.) To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep..
Tetard :: Tetard (n.) A gobioid fish (Eleotris gyrinus) of the Southern United States; -- called also sleeper.
Restless :: Restless (a.) Deprived of rest or sleep.
Roost :: Roost (v. i.) Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
Slumber :: Slumber (n.) Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose..
Sleepish :: Sleepish (a.) Disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy.
Soporate :: Soporate (v. t.) To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy.
Snore :: Snore (v. i.) To breathe with a rough, hoarse, nasal voice in sleep..
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