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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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Repose :: Repose (v.) A lying at rest; sleep; rest; quiet.

Roost :: Roost (v. i.) Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.

Somnambulation :: Somnambulation (n.) The act of walking in sleep.

Awake :: Awake (v. t.) To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties..

Sleepy :: Sleepy (n.) Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion..

Somnipathy :: Somnipathy (n.) Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like..

Asleep :: Asleep (a. & adv.) In the sleep of the grave; dead.

Walk :: Walk (v. i.) To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter..

Psychopannychism :: Psychopannychism (n.) The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body..

Wake :: Wake (v. i.) To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.

Watch :: Watch (v. i.) The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night..

Somnambulist :: Somnambulist (n.) A person who is subject to somnambulism; one who walks in his sleep; a sleepwalker; a noctambulist.

Oversleep :: Oversleep (v. i.) To sleep too long.

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

Sleepwaker :: Sleepwaker (n.) On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.

Nappy :: Nappy (a.) Inclined to sleep; sleepy; as, to feel nappy..

Nightgown :: Nightgown (n.) A loose gown used for undress; also, a gown used for a sleeping garnment..

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

Intersomnious :: Intersomnious (a.) Between the times of sleeping; in an interval of wakefulness.

Watch :: Watch (v. i.) To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil.