Word Meanings - SLEEPWALKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Walking in one's sleep.

Related words: (words related to SLEEPWALKING)

• WALK-MILL
  A fulling mill. Halliwell.
• 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.
• WALK
  akin to D. walken to felt hats, to work a hat, G. walken to full, OHG. walchan to beat, to full, Icel. valka to roll, to stamp, Sw. valka to full, to roll, Dan. valke to full; cf. Skr. valg to spring; 1. To move along on foot; to advance by steps;
• SLEEPWAKING
  The state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.
• SLEEPWAKER
  On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.
• SLEEPMARKEN
  See 4
• 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.
• SLEEP
  imp. of Sleep. Slept. Chaucer.
• WALKYR
  See VALKYRIA
• 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.
• WALKABLE
  Fit to be walked on; capable of being walked on or over. Swift.
• SLEEPINESS
  The quality or state of being sleepy.
• WALKER
  A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester. 4. Etym: (more info) 1. One who walks; a pedestrian. 2. That with which one walks; a foot. Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown. Chapman.
• 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;
• 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
• SLEEPWALKING
  Walking in one's sleep.
• SHOPWALKER
  One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.
• SIDEWALK
  A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• OUTSLEEP
  To exceed in sleeping. Shak.
• ROPEWALKER
  A ropedancer.
• 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
• FLOORWALKER
  One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
• DOGSLEEP
  The fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress. (more info) 1. Pretended sleep. Addison.
• ROPEWALK
  A long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes are manufactured.