sleeping (sleping)

[ME. sleping; verbal n. of sleep, v.] 1. The taking of rest in sleep; sleep; the state of one who sleeps; hence, lack of vigilance; remi ne . Full uaillant and wurthy were thys men tho, Which noght ne went to sompnolent sleping , But myghtyly and pusantly were waking. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5508. 2. Inoperativene ; dormant state or condition; abeyance. You ever Have wish'd the sleeping of this busine . Shak ., Hen. VIII., ii. 4. 163. Sleeping of proce , in Scots law, the state of a proce in the outer house of the Court of Se ion in which no judicial order or interlocutor has been pronounced for a year and a day.