somnambulist (somnambulist)

[As somnambule + -ist.] One who is subject to somnambulism; a person who walks in his sleep. somnambulistic (som-nam-bū-lis'tik), a. somnambulist + -ic.] Of, pertaining to, or IMG:content-1532.png:[blocks in formation] The voice, the manner, the matter, even the very atmosphere and the streamy candle-light, were all alike somnific. Southey, The Doctor, vi. A 1. ( Davies .) somnifugous (som-nif'u-gus), a . [L. somnus, sleep, + fugere , flee.] Driving away sleep; preventing sleep; agrypnotic. Bailey , 1731. Somniloquence (som-nil'ō-kwens), n. somnus , sleep, + loquentia , a talking, loqui , talk, speak.] The act or habit of talking in sleep; somniloquism. [