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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.

Deep; profound; as, thick sleep. [R.] Shak.

Slavery; bondage; servitude; thraldom. Tennyson. He still in thrall Of all-subdoing sleep. Chapman.

Being or occurring in good time; sufficiently early; seasonable. "The timely dew of sleep." Milton.

or notify, by tolling or ringing. When hollow murmurs of their evening bells Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells. Dryden.

Torpidness. [Obs.] "In a kind of torpitude, or sleeping state." Derham.

e. Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me. Shak. To ease her cares the force of sleep she tries. Swift.

ctedly; by surprise. He breaks at unawares upon our walks. Dryden. So we met In this old sleepy town an at unaware. R. Browning.

ed him under the guise of friendship; Morpheus is represented under the figure of a boy asleep. A crew who, under names of old renown . . . abused Fanatic Egypt. Milton. Mr. Duke may be mentioned under the double capacity of a poet and a divine. Felton. Under this head may come in the several contests and wars betwixt…

e undermeal. B. Jonson. In a narrower limit than the forty years' undermeal of the seven sleepers. Nash.

Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness; uneasiness; disquietude. Is this, quoth she, the cause of your unrest! Chaucer. Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast Tennyson.

To hasp or faster up; to close; as, sleep uphasps the eyes. [R.] Stanyhurst.

To rouse up; to rouse from sleep; to awake; to arouse. Shak.

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. The persons who turn vampires are generally wizards, witches, suicides, and…

Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch. "Worn out by the labors and vigils of many months." Macaulay. Nothing wears out a fine face like the vigils of the card table an…

The quality or state of being vigilant; forbearance of sleep; wakefulness.

To disturb; to interrupt. "Employed, it seems, to violate sleep." Milton.

Interruption, as of sleep or peace; disturbance.

To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep. The father waketh for the daughter. Ecclus. xlii. 9. Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps. Milton. I can not think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it. Locke.