Definition of sleep

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Sleep (v. t.) To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep..

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Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person..
Lullaby :: lullaby (v. t.) A song to quiet babes or lull them to sleep; that which quiets.
Consopite :: Consopite (v. t.) To lull to sleep; to quiet; to compose.
Oversleep :: Oversleep (v. t.) To sleep beyond; as, to oversleep one's self or one's usual hour of rising..
Somnific :: Somnific (a.) Causing sleep; somniferous.
Sleepy :: Sleepy (n.) Characterized by an absence of watchfulness; as, sleepy security..
Somnambulist :: Somnambulist (n.) A person who is subject to somnambulism; one who walks in his sleep; a sleepwalker; a noctambulist.
Sleeping :: Sleeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slee.
Sommeil :: Sommeil (n.) Slumber; sleep.
Soporate :: Soporate (v. t.) To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy.
Sleepyhead :: Sleepyhead (n.) The ruddy duck.
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..
Somniloquy :: Somniloquy (n.) A talking in sleep; the talking of one in a state of somnipathy.
Soporific :: Soporific (a.) Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium..
Hall :: Hall (n.) The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment..
Stagger :: Stagger (n.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers..
Morphean :: Morphean (a.) Of or relating to Morpheus, to dreams, or to sleep..
Hypnagogic :: Hypnagogic (a.) Leading to sleep; -- applied to the illusions of one who is half asleep.
Sleep-charged :: Sleep-charged (a.) Heavy with sleep.
Slumberer :: Slumberer (n.) One who slumbers; a sleeper.
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