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A sleeveless cloak, cut in circular form.

A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by women.

A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing- room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.

nal covering like a garment, as fur, skin, wool, husk, or bark; as, the horses coats were sleek. Fruit of all kinds, in coat Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell. Milton.

Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.

To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate. Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled. Dryden. I compel all creatures to my will. Tennyson.

Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful. [Obs.] A conceited chair to sleep in. Evelyn.

The act of sleeping, or of lulling, to sleep. [Obs.] Pope.

Lulled to sleep. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep. Dunglison.

A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed. [Written also cott.]

d and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.

ng place. Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. Shak.

ith the head raised, which distinguishes the posture of couchant from that of dormant, or sleeping; -- said of a lion or other beast. Couchant and levant (Law), rising up and lying down; -- said of beasts, and indicating that they have been long enough on land, not belonging to their owner, to lie down and rise up to f…

rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking. It cradles their fears to sleep. D. A. Clark.

A hovel; a hut; a cottage. Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great Shak.

singing softly. The fragment of the childish hymn with which he sung and crooned himself asleep. Dickens.

A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.

e to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.

A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory.