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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.

Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like. [Written also somnopathy.]

Sleepiness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.

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.