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noun

Sleeping n. 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.

verb

Sleep v. t. (past & past part. slept; pres. part. sleeping)

1.

To be slumbering in; followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep.

2.

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.

Sleep v. i. (past & past part. slept; pres. part. sleeping)

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. "Watching at the head of these that sleep."

2.

Figuratively:

(a)

To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly. "We sleep over our happiness."

(b)

To be dead; to lie in the grave. "Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him."

(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!"

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Etymology of 'Sleeping'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sleeping" Quotes from Famous Books

... sent his brother on his way, and went on to Nestor shepherd of his people. He found him sleeping in his tent hard by his own ship; his goodly armour lay beside him—his shield, his two spears and his helmet; beside him also lay the gleaming girdle with which the old man girded himself when he armed to lead his people into ...

— The Iliad • Homer

... into furious barking as he emerged from cover, and he had a moment's anxiety lest it serve as warning to the enemy; but a few quick strides brought him to the tent of Mellen's foreman. Going in, he roused the man, who was sleeping soundly. ...

— The Iron Trail • Rex Beach

... take my hand, and wipe my tears, and say: Weep not, O Freya, weep no golden tears! One day the wandering Oder will return, Or thou wilt find him in thy faithful search On some great road, or resting in an inn, Or at a ford, or sleeping by a tree. So Balder said;—but Oder, well I know, My truant Oder I shall see no more To the world's end; and Balder now is gone, And I am left uncomforted in Heaven." She spake; and all the Goddesses bewail'd. Last from among the Heroes one came near, No God, but ...

— Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold

... on, undaunted by the refusal of Barlow to let him through; day by day the iron rumor swells in the northern sky, and Tim sleeping or waking presses close after the vision of a giant of bronze with half-lidded smoldering eyes who juggles men and steel in the burning dusk ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... and precious to the hull country. The place where the ashes lie that wuz once the casket of that brave heart. Good husband, kind father, true friend, great General, grand Hero, sleeping here by the murmuring waters of the stream he loved, in the city of his choice, sleeping sweetly and calmly while the whole world wakes to do him honor and cherish and ...

— Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife • Marietta Holley

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