Word Meanings - SLEEPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
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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 ore is washed; a kind of buddle.
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- SLUMBERY
Sleepy. Chaucer. - SLEEPWALKER
One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist. - INERTIA
That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; - - sometimes called vis inertiƦ. 2. Inertness; - SLEEP-AT-NOON
A plant which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard. Dr. Prior. - SLUMBERER
One who slumbers; a sleeper. - 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. - DORMANT
In a sleeping posture; as, a lion dormant; -- distinguished from couchant. Dormant partner , a partner who takes no share in the active business of a company or partnership, but is entitled to a share of the profits, and subject to a - SLEEPWAKER
On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep. - SLEEPMARKEN
See 4 - INERTLY
Without activity; sluggishly. Pope. - 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. - INERTNESS
1. Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility. Glanvill. Laziness and inertness of mind. Burke. 2. Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia. - INERT
1. Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert. 2. Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless. The inert and desponding party of the court. Macaulay. - SLEEP
imp. of Sleep. Slept. Chaucer. - SLUMBERINGLY
In a slumbering manner. - 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 - QUIESCENTLY
In a quiescent manner. - SLUMBER
slumber; akin to D. sluimeren to slumber, MHG. slummern, slumen, G. 1. To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze. Piers Plowman. He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Ps. cxxi. 4. 2. To be in a state of negligence, sloth, - ACQUIESCENTLY
In an acquiescent manner. - OUTSLEEP
To exceed in sleeping. Shak. - 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.