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312 words match “SLEEP”

SLEEP n. 9 definitions
imp. of Sleep. Slept. Chaucer.
SLEEP-AT-NOON n.
A plant (Tragopogon pratensis) which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard. Dr. Prior.
SLEEP-CHARGED a.
Heavy with sleep.
SLEEPER n. 9 definitions
One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.
SLEEPFUL a.
Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy. -- Sleep"ful*ness, n.
SLEEPILY adv.
In a sleepy manner; drowsily.
SLEEPINESS n.
The quality or state of being sleepy.
SLEEPING a.
from Sleep. Sleeping car, a railway car or carrriage, arranged with apartments and berths for sleeping. -- Sleeping partner (Com.), a dormant partner. See under Dormant. -- Sleeping table (Mining), a stationary inclined platform on which pulverized ore is washed; a kind of buddle.
SLEEPISH a.
Disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy. Your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security. Ford.
SLEEPLESS a. 2 definitions
Having no sleep; wakeful.
SLEEPMARKEN n.
See 1st Hag, 4.
SLEEPWAKER n.
On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.
SLEEPWAKING n.
The state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.
SLEEPWALKER n.
One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
SLEEPWALKING n.
Walking in one's sleep.
SLEEPY a. 4 definitions
Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep. Shak. She waked her sleepy crew. Dryden.
SLEEPYHEAD n. 2 definitions
A sleepy person. To bed, to bed, says Sleepyhead. Mother Goose.
ASLEEP a. 3 definitions
In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant. Fast asleep the giant lay supine. Dryden. By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Milton.
DOGSLEEP n. 2 definitions
Pretended sleep. Addison.
OUTSLEEP v.
To exceed in sleeping. Shak.
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