Definition of sleep

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Sleep (v. i.) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps..

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Quietly :: Quietly (adv.) Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly..
Insomnious :: Insomnious (a.) Restless; sleepless.
Wake :: Wake (n.) The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil..
Chloralamide :: Chloralamide (n.) A compound of chloral and formic amide used to produce sleep.
Litter :: Litter (v. i.) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
Somnifugous :: Somnifugous (a.) Driving away sleep.
Consopiation :: Consopiation (n.) The act of sleeping, or of lulling, to sleep..
Dozy :: Dozy (a.) Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head..
Soporous :: Soporous (a.) Causing sleep; sleepy.
Prostrate :: Prostrate (a.) Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate..
Slumber :: Slumber (v. i.) To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze..
Roost :: Roost (v. i.) To sit, rest, or sleep, as fowls on a pole, limb of a tree, etc.; to perch..
Awake :: Awake (v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.
Waken :: Waken (v. i.) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A nurse shark. See under Nurse.
Sleep :: Sleep (v. i.) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps..
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..
Awakening :: Awakening (a.) Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn..
Snooze :: Snooze (n.) A short sleep; a nap.
Under :: Under (prep.) Denoting relation to something that comprehends or includes, that represents or designates, that furnishes a cover, pretext, pretense, or the like; as, he betrayed him under the guise of friendship; Morpheus is represented under the figure of a boy asleep..
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