imp. of Sleep. Slept.
(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.
(v. i.) To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not to be
vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
(v. i.) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
(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.
(v. t.) To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as,
to sleep a dreamless sleep.
(v. t.) To give sleep to; to furnish with accomodations for
sleeping; to lodge.
(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.
