Inducing sleep; soporific; spec. in sleeping nightshade. Obsolete. rare. Cf. sleeping, n. compounds 3.

Inducing sleep; soporific. Now rare.

That lulls.

Tending to cause sleepiness or drowsiness; inclining to sleep.

Inducing sleep; soporiferous; characterized by a tendency to sleep. Obsolete.

bringing sleep, soporiferous.

Of a substance or its properties: producing sleep or stupefaction; having the effect of a narcotic; of the nature of a narcotic.

Originally: made with or containing opium; inducing sleep or sedation; narcotic. Later: of the nature of an opiate.

Combinations formed on the verb-stem: breed-sleep adj. Obsolete sleep-breeding, soporific. breed-young adj. Obsolete having young, suckling.

Soporific.

Inducing sleepiness; lulling; soporific.

Causing sleep; soporific.

= soporific, adj. 1a.

Inducing sleep; soporific.

With agent-nouns, verbal nouns, and present participles, as sleep-bringer, sleep-dispeller; sleep-bringing, sleep-causing, sleep-compelling, sleep-des…

Causing sleep, dormitive.

Inducing sleep; soporific.

Tending to or causing sleep; sleepy, drowsy.

Characteristic of, related to, or resembling the poppy; papaveraceous. Also in extended use (now rare): soporific.

Causing or producing sleep. Obsolete. rare.

= hypnotic, adj. 1.

Inducing sleep.

Inducing or causing sleep.

Bringing or inducing sleep; soporific.

Inducing or tending to induce sleep; causing a person to sleep or slumber. Of qualities, etc. (Cf. soporiferous, adj. 2a.)

Causing sleep; somniferous.

Inducing sleep.

Soporific; sleep-bringing.

Tending to send a person to sleep; soporific, boring.