Word Meanings - DOGSLEEP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress. (more info) 1. Pretended sleep. Addison.

Related words: (words related to DOGSLEEP)

• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• SLEEPWALKER
  One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• PRETENDER
  The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
• PRETENDANT
  A pretender; a claimant.
• HANDSEL
  1. To give a handsel to. 2. To use or do for the first time, esp. so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally. No contrivance of our body, but some good man in Scripture hath handseled it with prayer. Fuller.
• SLEEP-AT-NOON
  A plant which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard. Dr. Prior.
• SLEEPLESS
  1. Having no sleep; wakeful. 2. Having no rest; perpetually agitated. "Biscay's sleepless bay." Byron. -- Sleep"less*ly, adv. -- Sleep"less*ness, n.
• PRETEND
  1. To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; -- usually with to. "Countries that pretend to freedom." Swift. For to what fine he would anon pretend, That know I well. Chaucer.
• PRETENDED
  Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend. -- Pre*tend"ed*ly, adv.
• SLEEPWAKING
  The state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.
• SLEEPWAKER
  On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.
• PRETENDENCE
  The act of pretending; pretense. Daniel.
• HANDSOMENESS
  The quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.
• SLEEPMARKEN
  See 4
• HANDSPIKE
  A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
• PRETENDINGLY
  As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously. Collier.
• SLEEPFUL
  Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy. -- Sleep"ful*ness, n.
• STRESS
  1. To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties. Spenser. 2. To subject to stress, pressure, or strain.
• SLEEPISH
  Disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy. Your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security. Ford.
• BACKSTRESS
  A female baker.
• HUCKSTRESS
  A female huckster.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
  A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller.
• MISTRESS
  magistrissa, for L. magistra, fem. of magister. See Master, Mister, 1. A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc. The late queen's gentlewoman!
• OUTSLEEP
  To exceed in sleeping. Shak.
• SPINSTRESS
  A woman who spins. T. Brown.
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• SEMPSTRESS
  A seamstress. Two hundred sepstress were employed to make me shirts. Swift.
• FOSTRESS
  A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse. B. Jonson.