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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Lullaby :: lullaby (v. t.) A song to quiet babes or lull them to sleep; that which quiets.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story..
Insomnia :: Insomnia (n.) Want of sleep; inability to sleep; wakefulness; sleeplessness.
Supersubstantial :: Superstructure (n.) The sleepers, and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed..
Outsleep :: Outsleep (v. t.) To exceed in sleeping.
Awakening :: Awakening (n.) The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual..
Somnifugous :: Somnifugous (a.) Driving away sleep.
Somniloquism :: Somniloquism (n.) The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy.
Sleeping :: Sleeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slee.
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..
Wink :: Wink (v. i.) To nod; to sleep; to nap.
Sleep :: Sleep (v. i.) To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber..
Insomnolence :: Insomnolence (n.) Sleeplessness.
Vigilance :: Vigilance (n.) The quality or state of being vigilant; forbearance of sleep; wakefulness.
Pullman Car :: Pullman car () A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; -- often shortened to Pullman..
Magnetical :: Magnetical (a.) Having, susceptible to, or induced by, animal magnetism, so called; as, a magnetic sleep. See Magnetism..
Rest :: Rest (n.) Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death..
Grateful :: Grateful (a.) Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying; delicious; as, a grateful present; food grateful to the palate; grateful sleep..
Sleep :: Sleep () imp. of Sleep. Slept.
Waken :: Waken (v. i.) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
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