Definition of sleep

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Sleep () imp. of Sleep. Slept.

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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..
Sandman :: Sandman (n.) A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them..
Sleepyhead :: Sleepyhead (n.) The ruddy duck.
Drowsy :: Drowsy (superl.) Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
Wake :: Wake (v. i.) To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
Somniloquism :: Somniloquism (n.) The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy.
Noctambulation :: Noctambulation (n.) Somnambulism; walking in sleep.
Mesmerize :: Mesmerize (v. t.) To bring into a state of mesmeric sleep.
Oversleep :: Oversleep (v. i.) To sleep too long.
Break :: Break (v. t.) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journey..
Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks..
Narcotic :: Narcotic (n.) A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium..
Stringer :: Stringer (n.) A longitudinal sleeper.
Comatose :: Comatose (a.) Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever..
Vampire :: Vampire (n.) A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730..
Stagger :: Stagger (n.) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers..
Rest :: Rest (n.) Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death..
Lie :: Lie (adj.) To lodge; to sleep.
Lodging :: Lodging (n.) A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning..
Chamber :: Chamber (n.) A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers..
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