Definition of sleep

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

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Insomnolence :: Insomnolence (n.) Sleeplessness.
Sleeping :: Sleeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slee.
Break :: Break (v. t.) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey..
Sleepwalking :: Sleepwalking (n.) Walking in one's sleep.
Rouse :: Rouse (v. i.) To awake from sleep or repose.
Nightmare :: Nightmare (n.) A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.
Sleepyhead :: Sleepyhead (n.) A sleepy person.
Obdormition :: Obdormition (n.) Sleep.
Waken :: Waken (v. t.) To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken.
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..
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..
Arouse :: Arouse (v. t.) To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties..
Bundle :: Bundle (v. i.) To sleep on the same bed without undressing; -- applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping..
Sleepless :: Sleepless (a.) Having no sleep; wakeful.
Siesta :: Siesta (n.) A short sleep taken about the middle of the day, or after dinner; a midday nap..
Stirring :: Stirrer (n.) One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer..
Dream :: Dream (n.) The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision..
Grillage :: Grillage (n.) A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.
Sleepful :: Sleepful (a.) Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy.
Sleepy :: Sleepy (n.) Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep..
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