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mer2. IMG:content-1531.png:[blocks in formation] 5767 somnus, sleep, + ambulatus, pp. of ambulare, walk: see amble, ambulate.] I. in trans. To walk in sleep; wander in a state of sleep, as a somnambulist. II. trans. To walk on or over in sleep. It is the bright May month; his Eminence again som nambulates the Promenade de la Rose. Carlyle , Diamond Necklace, xiv. somnambulation (som-nam-bū-lā'shon), n. [ somnambulate + -ion.] The act of walking in sleep; somnambulism. Imp . Dict . somnambulator (som-nam bū-lā-tor), n. [ somnambulist . Imp . Dict. somnambule (som-nam'būl), n. [ som nambule somnambulo = It. sonnambolo , sonnambulo , somnus , sleep, + ambulare , walk: see amble , ambulate .] A somnambulist. = Somnus bring, = E. bear1 .] Causing or inducing sleep; soporific: as, a somniferous drug. 'Twas I that ministred to her chaste bloud A true somniferous potion, which did steale Her thoughts to sleepe, and flattered her with death. Dekker , Sat i rom as tix (Works, 1873, I. 255). somniferyt (som-nif'e-ri), n . [Irreg. nifer , sleep-bringing: see somniferous .] A place of sleep. [Rare.] Somnus, awake; vnlocke the rustie latch That leades into the caue's somniferie. Tourneur , Transformed Metamorphosis, st. 36. somnific (som-nif'ik), a. [L. somnific us , causing sleep, somnus , sleep, + facere , make, cause.] Causing sleep; tending to induce sleep: s; soporific. Sp. somnámbulo, sonámbulo = Pg. sleep; somniferous; The owner of a ring was unhesitatingly found out from amongst a company of twelve, the ring having been withdrawn from the finger before the somnambule was introduced. Proc. Soc. Psych. Research , I. 241. [ som