Sleep: Definition and part of speech

Sleep

  1. imp. of Sleep. Slept.
  2. v. i. 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.
  3. v. i. To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
  4. v. i. To be dead; to lie in the grave.
  5. v. i. 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.
  6. v. t. To be slumbering in; — followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.
  7. v. t. To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for sleeping; to lodge.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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