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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..

Dozy :: Dozy (a.) Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head..

Participle :: Participle (n.) A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare participles..

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..

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

Sleepful :: Sleepful (a.) Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy.

Violation :: Violation (n.) Interruption, as of sleep or peace; disturbance..

Surrender :: Surrender (v. t.) To yield to any influence, emotion, passion, or power; -- used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep..

Wake :: Wake (v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.

Uphasp :: Uphasp (v. t.) To hasp or faster up; to close; as, sleep uphasps the eyes..

Somniferous :: Somniferous (a.) Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion..

Antihypnotic :: Antihypnotic (a.) Tending to prevent sleep.

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..

Sleeping :: Sleeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slee.

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

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

Somnambulist :: Somnambulist (n.) A person who is subject to somnambulism; one who walks in his sleep; a sleepwalker; a noctambulist.

Opiate :: Opiate (v. t.) To subject to the influence of an opiate; to put to sleep.

Hypnotic :: Hypnotic (a.) Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific.

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..

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