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tempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry. To see the life as lively mocked as ever Still sleep mocked death. Shak. Mocking marriage with a dame of France. Shak.

A closely fitting knit sleeve; also, a legging of knitted material. [Scot.]

A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia.

Of or relating to Morpheus, to dreams, or to sleep. Keats.

t, a net or curtain for excluding mosquitoes, -- used for beds and windows. -- Mosquito fleet, a fleet of small vessels. -- Mosquito hawk (Zoöl.), a dragon fly; -- so called because it captures and feeds upon mosquitoes. -- Mosquito netting, a loosely-woven gauzelike fabric for making mosquito bars.…

Arranged in many rows, or series, as the scales of a pine cone, or the leaves of the houseleek.

In the game of gleek, four cards of the same value, as four aces or four kings; hence, four of anything. [Obs.] [Written also mournival.]

s and the frame of the world are corporeal, and therefore subject to mutability. Stillingfleet.

To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze. Chaucer.

Inclined to sleep; sleepy; as, to feel nappy.

in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium. Nercotykes and…

istence; the vital powers; the natural life. "My days of nature." Shak. Oppressed nature sleeps. Shak.

The commander of a fleet. Mitford.

A fleet of ships; an assemblage of merchantmen, or so many as sail in company. "The navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir." 1 kings x. 11.

A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep. "Sad winter's night". Spenser.

A loose gown used for undress; also, a gown used for a sleeping garnment.

A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.

Somnambulism; walking in sleep. Quain.

when they do amiss. Locke. Nations obey my word and wait my nod. Prior. The land of Nod, sleep.

ctic shark (Somniosus microcephalus), having small teeth and feeble jaws; -- called also sleeper shark, and ground shark. (b) A large shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum), native of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, having the dorsal fins situated behind the ventral fins. -- To put to nurse, or To put out to nurse, to sen…