Som"ni*a*to*ry (?), a. Pertaining to sleep or dreams; somnial. [Obs. or
R.] Urquhart.
Som*nic"u*lous (?), a. [L. somniculosus.] Inclined to sleep; drowsy;
sleepy. [Obs.]
Som*nif"er*ous (?), a. [L. somnifer; somnus sleep + ferre to bring.]
Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous
potion. Walton.
Som*nif"ic (?), a. [L. somnificus; somnus sleep + facere to make.]
Causing sleep; somniferous.
Som*nif"u*gous (?), a. [L. somnus sleep + fugare to put to flight.]
Driving away sleep. [Obs.]
Som*nil"o*quence (?), n. The act of talking in one's sleep;
somniloquism.
Som*nil"o*quism (?), n. The act or habit of talking in one's sleep;
somniloquy. Coleridge.
Som*nil"o*quist, n. One who talks in his sleep.
Som*nil"o*quous (?), a. [L. somnus sleep + loqui to speak.] Apt to talk
in sleep.
Som*nil"o*quy (?), n. A talking in sleep; the talking of one in a state
of somnipathy. [R.] Coleridge.
Som*nip"a*thist (?), n. A person in a state of somniapathy.
Som*nip"a*thy (?), n. [L. somnus sleep + Gr. &?; a suffering of the
body, fr. &?;, &?;, to suffer.] Sleep from sympathy, or produced by
mesmerism or the like. [Written also somnopathy.]
{ Som"no*lence (?), Som"no*len*cy (?) }, n. [L. somnolentia: cf. F.
somnolence.] Sleepiness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.
Som"no*lent (?), a. [F. somnolent, L. somnolentus, from somnus sleep,
akin to Gr. &?;, Skr. svapna sleep, dream, svap to sleep, Icel. sofa,
AS. swefn sleep. Cf. Hypnotic, Somnambulism, Soporific.] Sleepy;
drowsy; inclined to sleep. -- Som"no*lent*ly, adv.
He had no eye for such phenomena, because he had a somnolent want
of interest in them.
De Quincey.
Som"no*lism (?), n. The somnolent state induced by animal magnetism.
Thomas (Med. Dict.).
Som*nop"a*thy (?), n. Somnipathy.
Som"nour (?), n. A summoner; an apparitor; a sompnour. [Obs.] Piers
Plowman.
{ Som"on*aunce (?), Som"once (?) }, n. [See Summon, Summons.] A
summons; a citation. [Obs.] Chaucer.