Sleep (?), obs. imp. of Sleep. Slept. Chaucer.
Sleep, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slept (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sleeping.] [OE.
slepen, AS. sl&?;pan; akin to OFries. sl&?;pa, OS. slpan, D. slapen,
OHG. slfan, G. schlafen, Goth. sl&?;pan, and G. schlaff slack, loose,
and L. labi to glide, slide, labare to totter. Cf. Lapse.] 1. To take
rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the
body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber.
Chaucer.
Watching at the head of these that sleep.
Milton.
2. Figuratively: (a) To be careless, inattentive, or uncouncerned; not
to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
We sleep over our happiness.
Atterbury.
(b) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.