n. [ L., fr. insomnis sleepless; pref. in- not + somnus sleep. ] Lack of sleep; inability to sleep, especially when chronic; wakefulness; sleeplessness. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. insomniosus, fr. insomnia insomnia. ] Restless; sleepless. Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. inter- + L. somnus sleep. ] Between the times of sleeping; in an interval of wakefulness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. somnialis dream bringing, fr. somnium dream, fr. somnus sleep. ] Of or pertaining to sleep or dreams. [ 1913 Webster ]
The somnial magic superinduced on, without suspending, the active powers of the mind. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Somnial; somniatory. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Pertaining to sleep or dreams; somnial. [ Obs. or R. ] Urquhart. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. somniculosus. ] Inclined to sleep; drowsy; sleepy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. somnifer; somnus sleep + ferre to bring. ] Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive;
a. [ L. somnificus; somnus sleep + facere to make. ] Causing sleep; somniferous. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. somnus sleep + fugare to put to flight. ] Driving away sleep. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of talking in one's sleep; somniloquism. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who talks in his sleep. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. somnus sleep + loqui to speak. ] Apt to talk in sleep. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A talking in sleep; the talking of one in a state of somnipathy. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A person in a state of somniapathy. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. somnus sleep + Gr. &unr_; a suffering of the body, fr. &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer. ] Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like.