Definition of Dogsleep

1. n. Pretended sleep.

Definition of Dogsleep

1. Noun. Feigned sleep. ¹

2. Noun. (nautical) The fitful naps taken when all hands are kept up by stress. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dogsleep

1. a light sleep [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dogsleep

dogsick
dogsit
dogsits
dogsitter
dogsitters
dogsitting
dogskin
dogskins
dogsled
dogsled mail
dogsledded
dogsledder
dogsledders
dogsledding
dogsleds
dogsleep (current term)
dogsleeps
dogstar
dogstooth check
dogteeth
dogtooth
dogtooth violet
dogtown
dogtowns
dogtrot
dogtrots
dogtrotted
dogtrotting
dogvane
dogvanes

Literary usage of Dogsleep

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon i.e. Alexandre Le'on Valle'e, Léon Vallée, Alois Leonhard Brandl (1899)
"... I shall have to describe hereafter as produced by opium), my sleep was never more than what is called dogsleep; so that I could hear myself moaning, ..."

2. A New View of Insanity: The Duality of the Mind Proved by the Structure by Arthur Ladbroke Wigan (1844)
"... from the intense anil torpid repose of exhaustion, to that light and half-conscious state which we call dogsleep, or sleeping "with one eye open. ..."

3. Good Thoughts in Bad Times: Good Thoughts in Worse Times, Mixt by Thomas Fuller (1841)
"Alas ! with the maid in the gospel, he is not dead, but sleepeth ; or rather, he sleepeth not, but only shutteth his eyes in dogsleep, and doth awake when ..."

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