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Inclination; disposition. On the first inclining towards sleep. Burke.

A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams. Tylor. Period of incubation, or Stage of incubation (Med.), the period which elapses between exposure to the causes of a disease and the attack resulting from it; the time of development of the supposed germs or spores.

, party, or choice more than to another; neutral; impartial. Indifferent in his choice to sleep or die. Addison.

Indifferent to obligation or duty. [Obs.] Thou drown'st thyself in inofficious sleep. B. Jonson.

Disappointing; imperfect; unsound. [Obs.] To render sleep's soft blessings insincere. Pope.

Want of sleep; inability to sleep; wakefulness; sleeplessness.

Restless; sleepless. Blount.

Sleeplessness.

e the tedium of waiting. Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes When monarch reason sleeps. Dryden.

Endless; as, interminate sleep. Chapman.

Between the times of sleeping; in an interval of wakefulness. [R.]

ope; to attract. To inveigle and invite the unwary sense. Milton. Shady groves, that easy sleep invite. Dryden. There no delusive hope invites despair. Cowper.

Not to be broken; holding or binding fast; tenacious. "Him death's iron sleep oppressed." Philips.

coarse, heavy work, not requiring skill also, set apart for labor; as, laboring days. The sleep of a laboring man is sweet. eccl. v. 12.

n intricate or involved form, or having a very complicated nature. The serpent . . . fast sleeping soon he found, In labyrinth of many a round self-rolled. Milton. The labyrinth of the mind. Tennyson.

a place or condition of special oppression. -- Land o' cakes, Scotland. -- Land of Nod, sleep. -- Land of promise, in Bible history, Canaan: by extension, a better country or condition of which one has expectation. -- Land of steady habits, a nickname sometimes given to the State of Connecticut. -- Land office, a…

To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule. Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy Shak. I shall laugh myself to death. Shak.

To place (new type) properly in the cases. To lay asleep, to put sleep; to make unobservant or careless. Bacon. -- To lay bare, to make bare; to strip. And laid those proud roofs bare to summer's rain. Byron. -- To lay before, to present to; to submit for consideration; as, the papers are laid before Congress. -- To…

e at least for evils, which Nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep. Sterne.

For Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Prov. xx. 18. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth he standeth take heed lest he fall. I Cor. x. 12.