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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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