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Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep. Shak. She waked her sleepy crew. Dryden.

A sleepy person. To bed, to bed, says Sleepyhead. Mother Goose.

death; to the last degree; completely; wholly. [Colloq.] I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy. Dickens. Dead drunk, so drunk as to be unconscious.

Drowsy; inclined to doze; sleepy; sluggish; as, a dozy head. Dryden.

hunters; hence, any arousing sound or call. [Obs.] Shak. Time plays the hunt's-up to thy sleepy head. Drayton.

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

Sleepy; drowsy; dull; sluggish; careless. He must not be oscitant, but intent on his charge. Barrow.

Wyclif. Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. Bacon. The sleepy pool above the dam. Tennyson.

rayish below. Called also dunbird, dundiver, ruddy diver, stifftail, spinetail, hardhead, sleepy duck, fool duck, spoonbill, etc. -- Ruddy plover (Zoöl.) the sanderling.

A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.

Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy. -- Sleep"ful*ness, n.

In a sleepy manner; drowsily.

The quality or state of being sleepy.

Disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy. Your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security. Ford.

Being in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy. His quiet and almost slumberous countenance. Hawthorne.

Sleepy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

thing unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil. "Smear the sleepy grooms with blood." Shak.

Inclined to sleep; drowsy; sleepy. [Obs.]

Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep. -- Som"no*lent*ly, adv. He had no eye for such phenomens, because he had a somnolent want of interest in them. De Quincey.

Causing sleep; sleepy.