SLEEPS
Noun
sleeps
plural of sleep
Verb
sleeps
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sleep
Anagrams
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Source: Wiktionary
SLEEP
Sleep, obs.
Definition: imp. of Sleep. Slept. Chaucer.
Sleep, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slept; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeping.] Etym:
[OE. slepen, AS. sl; akin to OFries. sl, OS. slapan, D. slapen, OHG.
slafan, G. schlafen, Goth. sl, and G. schlaff slack, loose, and L.
labi to glide, slide, labare to totter. Cf. Lapse.]
1. 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. Chaucer.
Watching at the head of these that sleep. Milton.
2. Figuratively:
(a) To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant;
to live thoughtlessly.
We sleep over our happiness. Atterbury.
(b) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 1 Thess. iv.
14.
(c) 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.
Sleep, v. t.
1. To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep
a dreamless sleep. Tennyson.
2. To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to
lodge. [R.] Blackw. Mag. 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.
Sleep, n. Etym: [AS. sl; akin to OFries. sl, OS. slap, D. slaap, OHG.
slaf, G. schlaf, Goth. sl. See Sleep, v. i.]
Definition: 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. "A man that waketh of his sleep." Chaucer.
O sleep, thou ape of death. Shak.
Note: Sleep is attended by a relaxation of the muscles, and the
absence of voluntary activity for any rational objects or purpose.
The pulse is slower, the respiratory movements fewer in number but
more profound, and there is less blood in the cerebral vessels. It is
susceptible of greater or less intensity or completeness in its
control of the powers. 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.
Syn.
– Slumber; repose; rest; nap; doze; drowse.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition