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Sleepwaking :: Sleepwaking (n.) The state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep..

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story..

Dwale :: Dwale (a.) A sleeping potion; an opiate.

States-general :: Stateroom (n.) A small apartment for lodging or sleeping in the cabin, or on the deck, of a vessel; also, a somewhat similar apartment in a railway sleeping car..

Couchant :: Couchant (v. t.) Lying down with the head raised, which distinguishes the posture of couchant from that of dormant, or sleeping; -- said of a lion or other beast..

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A nurse shark. See under Nurse.

Mesmerize :: Mesmerize (v. t.) To bring into a state of mesmeric sleep.

Opiate :: Opiate (a.) Inducing sleep; somniferous; narcotic; hence, anodyne; causing rest, dullness, or inaction; as, the opiate rod of Hermes..

Bedchamber :: Bedchamber (n.) A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in.

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..

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.

Rest :: Rest (n.) To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead..

Dormant :: Dormant (a.) In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant..

Sleepyhead :: Sleepyhead (n.) A sleepy person.

Diurnation :: Diurnation (n.) The condition of sleeping or becoming dormant by day, as is the case of the bats..

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A sleeping car.

Wake :: Wake (v. i.) To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.

Hypnotism :: Hypnotism (n.) A form of sleep or somnambulism brought on by artificial means, in which there is an unusual suspension of some powers, and an unusual activity of others. It is induced by an action upon the nerves, through the medium of the senses, as in persons of very feeble organization, by gazing steadly at a very bright object held before the eyes, or by pressure upon certain points of the surface of the body..

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

Dormitory :: Dormitory (n.) A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school..

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