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"dormant :: Dormant (a.) A large beam in the roof of a house upon which portions of the other timbers rest or sleep..

Moonblink :: Moonblink (n.) A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia..

Hypnology :: Hypnology (n.) A treatise on sleep; the doctrine of sleep.

Awake :: Awake (v. i.) To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death..

Dead :: Dead (a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep..

Rest :: Rest (n.) To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead..

Interminate :: Interminate (a.) Endless; as, interminate sleep..

Longitudinal :: Longitudinal (n.) A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.

Waken :: Waken (v. t.) To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken.

Snore :: Snore (v. i.) To breathe with a rough, hoarse, nasal voice in sleep..

Sleepy :: Sleepy (n.) Characterized by an absence of watchfulness; as, sleepy security..

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..

Night :: Night (n.) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to 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..

Dormitive :: Dormitive (n.) A medicine to promote sleep; a soporific; an opiate.

Sandman :: Sandman (n.) A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them..

Sleepy :: Sleepy (n.) Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep..

Quietly :: Quietly (adv.) Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly..

Drowse :: Drowse (v. i.) To sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; to slumber; to be heavy with sleepiness; to doze.

Gape :: Gape (v. i.) Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn.

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