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Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep. -- Som"no*lent*ly, adv. He had no eye for such phenomens, because he had a somnolent want of interest in them. De Quincey.

To lay asleep; to put to sleep; to quiet. [Obs.] The king's declaration for the sopiting of all Arminian heresies. Fuller.

The act of putting to sleep, or the state of being put to sleep; sleep. [Obs.] Dementation and sopition of reason. Sir T. Browne.

Profound sleep from which a person can be roused only with difficulty.

To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific. "Soporiferous medicine." Swift. --- Sop`o*rif"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Sop`o*rif"er*ous*ness, n.

Causing sleep; tending to cause sleep; soporiferous; as, the soporific virtues of opium.

Causing sleep; sleepy.

Undisturbed; deep; profound; as, sound sleep.

tended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; appopletic or sleepy staggers.

ain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act. And maketh him out of his sleep to start. Chaucer. I start as from some dreadful dream. Dryden. Keep your soul to the work when ready to start aside. I. Watts. But if he start, It is the flesh of a corrupted heart. Shak.

A small apartment for lodging or sleeping in the cabin, or on the deck, of a vessel; also, a somewhat similar apartment in a railway sleeping car.

One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer. Shak. Stirrer up, an instigator or inciter. Atterbury.

A longitudinal sleeper.

ydosaurus rugosus) having a short, thick tail resembling its head in form; -- called also sleeping lizard.

The sleepers, and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed.

- used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep.

A vision seen in sleep; a dream. [Obs.] Wycliff (Acts ii. 17). I defy both sweven and dream. Chaucer.

Proceeding from temperance. [R.] The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air. Pope. Temperate zone (Geog.), that part of the earth which lies between either tropic and the corresponding polar circle; -- so called because the heat is less than in the torrid zone, and the cold less than in the frigid zones.…

A gobioid fish (Eleotris gyrinus) of the Southern United States; -- called also sleeper.