3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sleep \Sleep\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slept}; p. pr & vb n.
{Sleeping}.] [OE. slepen, AS sl?pan; akin to OFries sl?pa,
OS sl[=a]pan, D. slapen, OHG. sl[=a]fan, G. schlafen Goth.
sl?pan, 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sleeping \Sleep"ing\,
a. & n. from {Sleep}.
{Sleeping car}, a railway car or carrriage, arranged with
apartments and berths for sleeping.
{Sleeping partner} (Com.), a dormant partner. See under
{Dormant}.
{Sleeping table} (Mining), a stationary inclined platform on
which pulverized ore is washed; a kind of buddle.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sleeping
adj 1: (heraldry) lying with head on paws as if sleeping [syn: {dormant(ip)}]
2: lying asleep; "don't wake the sleeping children"; "gazed
with affection at his slumbering form" [syn: {sleeping(a)},
{slumbering(a)}]
n 1: the state of being asleep [ant: {waking}]
2: quiet and inactive restfulness [syn: {quiescence}, {quiescency},
{dormancy}]
3: the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic
rate
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