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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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Slumber :: Slumber (n.) Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose..

Sleep-charged :: Sleep-charged (a.) Heavy with sleep.

Rock :: Rock (v. t.) To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet..

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

Bundle :: Bundle (v. i.) To sleep on the same bed without undressing; -- applied to the custom of a man and woman, especially lovers, thus sleeping..

Obdormition :: Obdormition (n.) Sleep.

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

Consopite :: Consopite (a.) Lulled to sleep.

Awaken :: Awaken (v. t.) To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.

Coach :: Coach (n.) A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car..

Slumbery :: Slumbery (a.) Sleepy.

Nappy :: Nappy (a.) Tending to cause sleepiness; serving to make sleepy; strong; heady; as, nappy ale..

Sleep :: Sleep (v. i.) To be dead; to lie in the grave.

Slept :: Slept () imp. & p. p. of Sleep.

Lullaby :: lullaby (v. t.) A song to quiet babes or lull them to sleep; that which quiets.

Oscitant :: Oscitant (a.) Sleepy; drowsy; dull; sluggish; careless.

A- :: A- () A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofd/ne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English

Rouse :: Rouse (v. i.) To awake from sleep or repose.

Sopor :: Sopor (n.) Profound sleep from which a person can be roused only with difficulty.

Asleep :: Asleep (a. & adv.) Numbed, and, usually, tingling..