Catch forty winks
Publish date: 2024-06-24
| • | imp. of Sleep. Slept. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly. |
| • | To be dead; to lie in the grave. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep. |
| • | To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge. |
| • | 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. |
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