Word Meanings - NIGHTGOWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A loose gown used for undress; also, a gown used for a sleeping garnment.

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• SLEEPWALKER
  One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
• 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.
• SLEEPWAKING
  The state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.
• SLEEPWAKER
  On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• SLEEPMARKEN
  See 4
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• LOOSESTRIFE
  The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant
• SLEEPFUL
  Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy. -- Sleep"ful*ness, n.
• SLEEPISH
  Disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy. Your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security. Ford.
• LOOSENESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
• SLEEPING
  from Sleep. Sleeping car, a railway car or carrriage, arranged with apartments and berths for sleeping. -- Sleeping partner , a dormant partner. See under Dormant. -- Sleeping table , a stationary inclined platform on which pulverized
• SLEEPILY
  In a sleepy manner; drowsily.
• SLEEPINESS
  The quality or state of being sleepy.
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• SLEEPY
  1. Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep. Shak. She waked her sleepy crew. Dryden. 2. Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion. Chaucer. 3. Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish. Shak. 'Tis not sleepy business;
• LOOSELY
  In a loose manner.
• LOOSENER
  One who, or that which, loosens.
• SLEEPER
  An animal that hibernates, as the bear. A large fresh-water gobioid fish . A nurse shark. See under Nurse. (more info) 1. One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person. 2. That which lies dormant, as a law. Bacon. 3. A sleeping
• OUTSLEEP
  To exceed in sleeping. Shak.
• UNLOOSEN
  To loosen; to unloose.
• FOUNDRESS
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
• ASLEEP
  1. In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant. Fast asleep the giant lay supine. Dryden. By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Milton. 2. In the sleep of the grave; dead. Concerning them which are asleep . . . sorrow not, even as others which have
• DOGSLEEP
  The fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress. (more info) 1. Pretended sleep. Addison.
• LAUNDRESS
  A woman whose employment is laundering.
• OUTLOOSE
  A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden.
• SLEEP
  imp. of Sleep. Slept. Chaucer.