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imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew. Chaucer.

imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew. Chaucer.

imp. of Slee,to slay. Chaucer.

To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze. Piers Plowman. He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Ps. cxxi. 4.

One who slumbers; a sleeper.

Without slumber; sleepless.

Being in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy. His quiet and almost slumberous countenance. Hawthorne.

Sleepy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

Evenly spread or arranged; sleek; as, smooth hair.

To laugh slyly; to laugh in one's sleeve.

Slight snow; sleet. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

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.

s 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.