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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Hypnology :: Hypnology (n.) A treatise on sleep; the doctrine of sleep.
Lidless :: Lidless (a.) Having no lid, or not covered with the lids, as the eyes; hence, sleepless; watchful..
Wink :: Wink (v. i.) To nod; to sleep; to nap.
Dormitive :: Dormitive (a.) Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium..
Rouse :: Rouse (v.) To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly..
Sleepy :: Sleepy (n.) Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep..
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..
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..
Doziness :: Doziness (n.) The state of being dozy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.
Sleepyhead :: Sleepyhead (n.) A sleepy person.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story..
Snore :: Snore (v. i.) To breathe with a rough, hoarse, nasal voice in sleep..
Quietly :: Quietly (adv.) Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly..
Nightmare :: Nightmare (n.) A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.
Dream :: Dream (v. t.) To have a dream of; to see, or have a vision of, in sleep, or in idle fancy; -- often followed by an objective clause..
Roost :: Roost (v. i.) Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
Outsleep :: Outsleep (v. t.) To exceed in sleeping.
Asleep :: Asleep (a. & adv.) In the sleep of the grave; dead.
Soporific :: Soporific (n.) A medicine, drug, plant, or other agent that has the quality of inducing sleep; a narcotic..
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..
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