sleep(2) (iou) and Herzen, Aleksandr (Ivanovich) (sh)

sleep(2) (iou)

sleep verb. .

I. verb intrans.
Be in a state of sleep; (occas.) fall asleep. Also, stay the night in a specified place. OE.
G. Gissing He..went to bed, but did not sleep for a long time. W. F. Harvey I slept..at this..inn at Chedsholme. H. Carpenter Gertrude would sleep late, rising at noon.
b. Have sexual intercourse with, together. OE.
J. Osborne We never slept together before we were married.
c. Postpone decision on a matter until the following day. E16.
Be at peace in death; lie buried. OE.
J. W. Burgon He sleeps..in Holywell cemetery.
a. Of a limb: be numb, esp. as the result of pressure. Cf. go to sleep s.v. SLEEP noun. OE.
b. Of a top: spin so fast as to seem motionless. E16.
c. Of a plant: have its flowers or leaves folded together in sleep (SLEEP noun 2c). L18.
a. Remain dormant, inactive, or quiescent; act as a sleeping partner or sleeper (SLEEPER 7b). OE.
Ld Macaulay The question, having slept during eighteen years, was suddenly revived. J. Buchan Her anxiety would never sleep till she saw me again. A. S. Neill Repressed feelings are not dead; they are only sleeping.
b. Remain calm, still, or motionless. L16.
R. Brooke Cool gardened homes slept in the sun.
Be remiss or idle; live thoughtlessly. LME.
II. verb trans.
Continue for a period of time in (sleep); experience (sleep) of a specified kind. Freq. in sleep the sleep of the just s.v. SLEEP noun. OE.
Neglect, put off decision on, (a matter); disregard, pay no attention to. L15-L18.
a. Foll. by off, out: dispel the effects of (esp. eating or drinking) by sleeping. L15.
Thackeray In the morning, after he had slept his Wine off, he was very gay. S. Radley He got..stoned on cannabis last night, and was sleeping it off this morning.
b. Foll. by away: lose, waste, or get rid of by sleeping. M16.
c. refl. with compl. Make oneself sober etc. by sleeping. M16.
Pass (time) in sleep. Also foll. by out, away. M16.
W. Horwood Hulver and Bracken had slept their first night in the clearing.
Cause to sleep or fall asleep. E19.
Provide with sleeping accommodation. M19.
Spectator Some hotels were sleeping..five guests to a room.
With adverbs in specialized senses, & phrases: sleep around colloq. engage in sexual intercourse casually with many different partners. sleep a wink enjoy a brief moment of sleep (usu. with neg.). sleep in (a) sleep on the premises where one is employed; (b) lie in, sleep late; (orig. Scot.) oversleep. sleep like a log, sleep like a top sleep very soundly. sleep on continue sleeping, sleep late. sleep out (a) sleep in the open air; (b) sleep away from the premises where one is employed. sleep over (chiefly N. Amer.) spend the night at a place Other than one's own residence. sleep rough: see ROUGH adverb. sleep sound: see SOUND adverb 2. sleep through (esp. of a baby) sleep uninterruptedly through a period of time, usu. the night. sleep tight (as a formula when parting at night) sleep well! sleep up catch up on one's sleep. sleep with one eye open sleep very lightly.
Comb.: sleep-away adjective (US) (esp. of a camp) at which one sleeps away from Home; sleep-over noun & adjective (chiefly N. Amer.) (a) noun an occasion of spending the night away from Home; (b) adjective (involving) spending the night away from Home.

Herzen, Aleksandr (Ivanovich) (sh)

born April 6, 1812, Moscow, Russia
died Jan. 21, 1870, Paris, France

Russian writer and political activist.

As a student at the University of Moscow, he joined a socialist group, for which he was exiled to work in the provincial bureaucracy (1834-42). Returning to Moscow, he joined the Westernizers but then turned to anarchist socialism. After inheriting a considerable fortune, he left Russia. In Paris he proclaimed Western institutions "dead" and developed the theory of a unique Russian path to socialism known as peasant populism. He moved to London in 1852 and founded the Free Russian Press, as well as the influential newspaper Kolokol ("The Bell") in 1857; smuggled into Russia, the paper was read by both reformers and revolutionaries. When the Emancipation Act was enacted in 1861, he denounced it as a betrayal of the peasants. He then turned his energies to Writing My Past and Thoughts (1861-67), considered one of the greatest works of Russian prose.

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