Word Meanings - INTERSOMNIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Between the times of sleeping; in an interval of wakefulness.

Related words: (words related to INTERSOMNIOUS)

• INTERVALLUM
  An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.
• SLEEPWALKER
  One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
• INTERVAL
  Difference in pitch between any two tones. At intervals, coming or happening with intervals between; now and then. "And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals." Tennyson. -- Augmented interval , an interval increased by half a step or half a tone.
• TIMESERVING
  Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.
• 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.
• SLEEPWAKING
  The state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.
• SLEEPWAKER
  On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.
• SLEEPMARKEN
  See 4
• 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.
• 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.
• INTERVAL; INTERVALE
  A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7. The woody intervale just beyond
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• TIMESERVER
  One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense.
• 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;
• TIMESAVING
  Saving time; as, a timesaving expedient.
• 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
• BETIME; BETIMES
  1. In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow. 2. In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• OUTSLEEP
  To exceed in sleeping. Shak.
• 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
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• DOGSLEEP
  The fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress. (more info) 1. Pretended sleep. Addison.
• SLEEP
  imp. of Sleep. Slept. Chaucer.