Sleep \Sleep\, v. t. 1. To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep. --Tennyson.
2. To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge. [R.] --Blackw. Mag.
{To sleep away}, to spend in sleep; as, to sleep away precious time.
{To sleep off}, to become free from by sleep; as, to sleep off drunkeness or fatigue.
Sleep \Sleep\, obs. imp. of Sleep. Slept. --Chaucer.
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.
Sleep \Sleep\, n. [AS. sl[=ae]p; akin to OFries. sl[=e]p, OS. sl[=a]p, D. slaap, OHG. sl[=a]f, G. schlaf, Goth. sl[=e]ps. See {Sleep}, v. i.] A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state. ``A man that waketh of his sleep.'' --Chaucer.
O sleep, thou ape of death. --Shak.
Note: Sleep is attended by a relaxation of the muscles, and the absence of voluntary activity for any rational objects or purpose. The pulse is slower, the respiratory movements fewer in number but more profound, and there is less blood in the cerebral vessels. It is susceptible of greater or less intensity or completeness in its control of the powers.
{Sleep of plants} (Bot.), a state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other, and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
Syn: Slumber; repose; rest; nap; doze; drowse.
How could it be otherwise in a society where so many are "latchkey" children, gathered with their elders only to eat and sleep?
Boyd L. Jefferies used to thrive on four hours of sleep a night, arriving for work at 1:30 a.m. and staying until evening to command the aggressive stock-trading desk of the brokerage that bears his name.
He snatches three or four hours of sleep in his hotel room and conducts an interview while eating a sandwich.
A director maybe gets four or five hours' sleep." About "Navy SEALS," Sheen commented: "A long shoot, 16 weeks, eight in Virginia Beach, the remaining eight in Spain.
When 10 buses from Gainesville pulled up to the Days Inn in suburban Kenner on Friday, nearly 200 of the 600 students learned they didn't have a place to sleep.
To die, to sleep; "To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; "For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, "When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, "Must give us pause.
To die, to sleep; "To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; "For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, "When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, "Must give us pause.
To die, to sleep; "To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; "For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, "When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, "Must give us pause.
And I say, 'Yeah, sure, he can hit in his sleep.'
He was working long hours, sometimes getting as little as two to three hours of sleep.
While the quick about-face isn't causing Japanese investors to lose any sleep, some on the other side of the ocean watch with furrowed brows.
The sleep deprivation and competition were so excessive.
Kathy Thornton of Mission Control in Houston told crew members before they went to sleep Sunday that Ulysses was slightly cooler than expected but within its temperature limits.
The Tony- and Oscar-winning actor, remembered for his wit and charm as well as his versatility and skill on the stage and screen, died in his sleep early Saturday at his Manhattan home.
Rites of Sting "I sleep like a baby," the stockholder said, "Though the market is sadly awry.
Mrs. Nuzum, for instance, couldn't sleep the night before her sale.
"A lot of times we don't get home from road trips till 2 or 3 in the morning, and only get about four hours of sleep before heading back out to the ballpark," he said.
"I knew I had to trust my fellow crewmen and be able to sleep when others were on watch.
His supervisor told Pelvas that he had to attend but that he could sleep, read a newspaper or otherwise engage himself durng the services.
The leak occurred shortly after midnight, and some victims died in their sleep.
To endure the wild ride in volatile futures markets, they need stoic patience, a strong stomach and the ability to sleep when their accounts are substantially under water.
Several villagers welcome three visitors to Tiouilit, and over endless glasses of sweet tea they gab till long after midnight before allowing their guests to sleep on the straw-matted floor.
I eat and drink and sleep AIDS.
Do not sleep on the ground in California, or you may catch bubonic plague.
During an episode of sleep apnea, the amount of oxygen in the bloodstream plummets.
In the last week before the restructuring was completed, a lawyer arrived for a meeting on Tuesday having had eight hours sleep since the previous Saturday.
His workers live in mud and thatch huts and sleep on straw piled on the dirt floors.
We were kept in custody at the military roadblock all night, though it was difficult to sleep.
The chair is so big that two sisters sleep on top of the arms; the underpart of the arms serves as tunnels.
For three days, Wise didn't sleep, fielding more than 50 calls about Busey and conducting several live radio interviews each day.