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Sleeping vs Dwale - What's the difference?

sleeping | dwale |

As verbs the difference between sleeping and dwale

is that sleeping is while dwale is to mutter deliriously .

As nouns the difference between sleeping and dwale

is that sleeping is the state or act of being asleep while dwale is (obsolete) a sleeping-potion, especially one made from belladonna.

As a adjective sleeping

is asleep.

sleeping

English

Verb

(head)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=20 citation , passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Asleep.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains , passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
  • Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.

    • Derived terms

    * sleeping bag * Sleeping Beauty * sleeping car * sleeping hours * sleeping pill * sleeping room

    Noun

  • the state or act of being asleep.
  • * 1995 , Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (page 144)
    • there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings .

    Anagrams

    * peelings ----

    dwale

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) a sleeping-potion, especially one made from belladonna
  • * Late 14th century , Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reeve's Tale
    • To bedde goþ Aleyne and also John; / Þer nas na moore – hem nedede no dwale .
  • belladonna itself, deadly nightshade; or some other soporific plant
  • * 1842 , J. van Voorst, The Phytologist , p. 595.
    • Beneath and around the clumps of ragged moss-grown elder and hoary stunted whitethorn (...) rise thickets of tall nettles and rank hemlock, concealing the deadly but alluring dwale —
  • error, delusion
  • (heraldry) a sable or black color.

    • Verb

    (dwal)
  • To mutter deliriously

    • Related terms

    * dwaal — a dreamy, dazed, or absent-minded state * dwual — to be delirious

    References

    * * (Webster)

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