Sleep

Definition of Sleep

imp.

imp. of Sleep. Slept.

v. i.

To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber.

[imp. & p. p. Slept ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeping.]

Watching at the head of these that sleep.

- Milton.

To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.

We sleep over our happiness.

- Atterbury.

To be dead; to lie in the grave.

Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

- 1 Thess. iv. 14.

To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant; as, a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps.

How sweet the moonlight sleep upon this bank!

- Shak.

v. t.

To be slumbering in; - followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.

To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.

To sleep away
to spend in sleep; as, to sleep away precious time.

To sleep off
to become free from by sleep; as, to sleep off drunkeness or fatigue.

A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state.

O sleep, thou ape of death.

- Shak.

Sleep of plants
(Bot.) a state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other, and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.

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