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Definition of sleep

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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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Couch :: Couch (v. t.) A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge..

Dream :: Dream (n.) The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision..

Insomnolence :: Insomnolence (n.) Sleeplessness.

Little :: Little (a.) Short in duration; brief; as, a little sleep..

Awake :: Awake (a.) Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.

Insomnious :: Insomnious (a.) Restless; sleepless.

Hypnotic :: Hypnotic (a.) Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific.

Insomnia :: Insomnia (n.) Want of sleep; inability to sleep; wakefulness; sleeplessness.

Somnific :: Somnific (a.) Causing sleep; somniferous.

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..

Couchant :: Couchant (v. t.) Lying down with the head raised, which distinguishes the posture of couchant from that of dormant, or sleeping; -- said of a lion or other beast..

Incubation :: Incubation (n.) A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams.

Nightmare :: Nightmare (n.) A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.

Litter :: Litter (v. i.) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

Chloralamide :: Chloralamide (n.) A compound of chloral and formic amide used to produce sleep.

Noctambulation :: Noctambulation (n.) Somnambulism; walking in sleep.

Unrest :: Unrest (n.) Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness; uneasiness; disquietude.

Lie :: Lie (adj.) To lodge; to sleep.

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.

Somnambulism :: Somnambulism (n.) A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions approppriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.