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One who labors at night and sleeps in the day.

Having, susceptible to, or induced by, animal magnetism, so called; as, a magnetic sleep. See Magnetism. Magnetic amplitude, attraction, dip, induction, etc. See under Amplitude, Attraction, etc. -- Magnetic battery, a combination of bar or horseshoe magnets with the like poles adjacent, so as to act together with gre…

A sleeve. [Obs.]

[Obs.] In my Father's house are many mansions. John xiv. 2. These poets near our princes sleep, And in one grave their mansions keep. Den

A silk or woolen vestment without sleeves worn by cardinals, bishops, abbots, and the prelates of the Roman court. It has a low collar, is fastened in front, and reaches almost to the knees.

A female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions.

nting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare. I will ride thee o' nights like the mare. Shak.

ce. Hence: Value; worth. What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed Shak.

dicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure. "Medicine thee to that sweet sleep." Shak.

he phrase to make mention of. I will make mention of thy righteousness. Ps. lxxi. 16. And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of. Shak.

Of, pertaining to, or induced by, mesmerism; as, mesmeric sleep.

To bring into a state of mesmeric sleep.

ntempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry. To see the life as lively mocked as ever Still sleep mocked death. Shak. Mocking marriage with a dame of France. Shak.

A closely fitting knit sleeve; also, a legging of knitted material. [Scot.]

A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia.

Of or relating to Morpheus, to dreams, or to sleep. Keats.

To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze. Chaucer.

Inclined to sleep; sleepy; as, to feel nappy.

, 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. Nercotykes and…

xistence; the vital powers; the natural life. "My days of nature." Shak. Oppressed nature sleeps. Shak.