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e. Hence: Value; worth. What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed Shak.

icine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure. "Medicine thee to that sweet sleep." Shak.

e phrase to make mention of. I will make mention of thy righteousness. Ps. lxxi. 16. And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of. Shak.

Of, pertaining to, or induced by, mesmerism; as, mesmeric sleep.

To bring into a state of mesmeric sleep.

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 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.

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.

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…

The tendency of certain plant organs, as leaves, to assume special "sleeping" positions or make curvatures under the influence of darkness. It is well illustrated in the leaflets of clover and other leguminous plants.

Sleep. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.