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Sleepy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

hing unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil. "Smear the sleepy grooms with blood." Shak.

A short sleep; a nap. [Colloq.]

To breathe with a rough, hoarse, nasal voice in sleep.

Slumber; sleep.

The act of walking in sleep.

A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions approppriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.

A person who is subject to somnambulism; one who walks in his sleep; a sleepwalker; a noctambulist.

an intentional and waking departure, or a somnambulistic leave-taking and waking in her sleep, may remain a subject of contention. Dickens.

Of or pertaining to sleep or dreams. The somnial magic superinducted on, without suspending, the active powers of the mind. Coleridge.

Pertaining to sleep or dreams; somnial. [Obs. or R.] Urquhart.

Inclined to sleep; drowsy; sleepy. [Obs.]

Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion. Walton.

Causing sleep; somniferous.

Driving away sleep. [Obs.]

The act of talking in one's sleep; somniloquism.

The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy. Coleridge.

One who talks in his sleep.

Apt to talk in sleep.

A talking in sleep; the talking of one in a state of somnipathy. [R.] Coleridge.