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sleepless


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sleepless  \Sleep"less\,  a. 
  1.  Having  no  sleep;  wakeful. 
 
  2.  Having  no  rest;  perpetually  agitated.  ``Biscay's  sleepless 
  bay.''  --Byron.  --  {Sleep"less*ly},  adv  -- 
  {Sleep"less*ness},  n. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sleepless 
  adj  1:  experiencing  or  accompanied  by  sleeplessness;  "insomniac  old 
  people";  "insomniac  nights";  "lay  sleepless  all 
  night";  "twenty  watchful,  weary,  tedious  nights"- 
  Shakespeare  [syn:  {insomniac},  {watchful}] 
  2:  without  having  the  eyes  closed  or  covered  by  the  eyelids; 
  "to  an  eye  like  mine,  a  lidless  watcher  of  the  public 
  weal"-  Alfred  Tennyson  [syn:  {lidless}] 




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