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.
v. i.
To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
v. i.
To be dead; to lie in the grave.
v. i.
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.
v. t.
To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.
v. t.
To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.
v. i.
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.
n.
A plant (Tragopogon pratensis) which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard.
n.
One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.
n.
That which lies dormant, as a law.
n.
An animal that hibernates, as the bear.
n.
A large fresh-water gobioid fish (Eleotris dormatrix).
n.
A nurse shark. See under Nurse.
n.
Something lying in a reclining posture or position.
n.
One of the pieces of timber, stone, or iron, on or near the level of the ground, for the support of some superstructure, to steady framework, to keep in place the rails of a railway, etc.; a stringpiece.
n.
One of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story.
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