Sleep /(?)/

Sleep

imp.

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Slept; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeping

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.
Watching at the head of these that sleep.
— Milton.
To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
We sleep over our happiness.
— Atterbury.
To be dead; to lie in the grave.
Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
— 1 Thess. iv. 14.
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.

v. t.

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. [R.]

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.

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.
O sleep, thou ape of death.
— Shak.

Sleep of plants: 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.