Word Meanings - UPROUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To rouse up; to rouse from sleep; to awake; to arouse. Shak.

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• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• SLEEPWALKER
  One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
• SLEEP-AT-NOON
  A plant which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard. Dr. Prior.
• SLEEPLESS
  1. Having no sleep; wakeful. 2. Having no rest; perpetually agitated. "Biscay's sleepless bay." Byron. -- Sleep"less*ly, adv. -- Sleep"less*ness, n.
• AWAKENING
  Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. -- A*wak"en*ing*ly, adv.
• AROUSE
  To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties. Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the
• SLEEPWAKING
  The state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.
• SLEEPWAKER
  On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.
• AWAKENMENT
  An awakening.
• AWAKE
  Awoken; p. pr. & vb. n. Awaking. The form Awoke is sometimes used as 1. To rouse from sleep.; to wake; to awaken. Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her. Tennyson. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save
• SLEEPMARKEN
  See 4
• ROUSER
  A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, rouses. 2. Something very exciting or great.
• SLEEPFUL
  Strongly inclined to sleep; very sleepy. -- Sleep"ful*ness, n.
• SLEEPISH
  Disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy. Your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security. Ford.
• SLEEP
  imp. of Sleep. Slept. Chaucer.
• SLEEPING
  from Sleep. Sleeping car, a railway car or carrriage, arranged with apartments and berths for sleeping. -- Sleeping partner , a dormant partner. See under Dormant. -- Sleeping table , a stationary inclined platform on which pulverized
• SLEEPILY
  In a sleepy manner; drowsily.
• SLEEPINESS
  The quality or state of being sleepy.
• SLEEPY
  1. Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep. Shak. She waked her sleepy crew. Dryden. 2. Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion. Chaucer. 3. Dull; lazy; heavy; sluggish. Shak. 'Tis not sleepy business;
• SLEEPER
  An animal that hibernates, as the bear. A large fresh-water gobioid fish . A nurse shark. See under Nurse. (more info) 1. One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person. 2. That which lies dormant, as a law. Bacon. 3. A sleeping
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• WIDE-AWAKE
  Fully awake; not Dickens.
• OUTSLEEP
  To exceed in sleeping. Shak.
• CROUSE
  Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent. Burns.
• ASLEEP
  1. In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant. Fast asleep the giant lay supine. Dryden. By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Milton. 2. In the sleep of the grave; dead. Concerning them which are asleep . . . sorrow not, even as others which have
• DOGSLEEP
  The fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress. (more info) 1. Pretended sleep. Addison.