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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
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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