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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On :: On (prep.) In continuance; without interruption or ceasing; as, sleep on, take your ease; say on; sing on..
Sleepwalking :: Sleepwalking (n.) Walking in one's sleep.
Somnial :: Somnial (a.) Of or pertaining to sleep or dreams.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A sleeping car.
Hypnology :: Hypnology (n.) A treatise on sleep; the doctrine of sleep.
Wake :: Wake (v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awake.
Dormant :: Dormant (a.) Sleeping; as, a dormant animal; hence, not in action or exercise; quiescent; at rest; in abeyance; not disclosed, asserted, or insisted on; as, dormant passions; dormant claims or titles..
Sleepy :: Sleepy (n.) Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep..
Mesmerize :: Mesmerize (v. t.) To bring into a state of mesmeric sleep.
Chloralamide :: Chloralamide (n.) A compound of chloral and formic amide used to produce sleep.
Awaken :: Awaken (v. t.) To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.
Little :: Little (a.) Short in duration; brief; as, a little sleep..
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks..
Sleepy :: Sleepy (n.) Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish.
Lullaby :: lullaby (v. t.) A song to quiet babes or lull them to sleep; that which quiets.
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..
Wake :: Wake (v. t.) To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive..
Mara :: Mara (n.) A female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions..
Drowsy :: Drowsy (superl.) Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
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