sleepless (sleples)

[ ful. IMG:content-1277.png:[blocks in formation] The mildne of your sleepy thoughts. Her house Bespake a sleepy hand of negligence. Words worth, Excursion, i. 4t. Tending to induce sleep; sleep-producing; soporific. His slepy verde in hond he [Mercury] bar uprighte. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 529. We will give you sleepy drinks. Shak ., W. T., 1. 1. 15. 5. Decaying internally: said of fruit. See blet , v . i. Sleepy catch-fly. See catch - fly . - Sleepy duck, the ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida : also called sleepyhead , sleepy coot , sleepy brother . [Atlantic coast, U. S.]