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Som*nam"bu*la`tor (?), n. A somnambulist.

Som*nam"bule (?), n. [F.] A somnambulist.

Som*nam"bu*lic (?), a. Somnambulistic.

Som*nam"bu*lism (?), n. [Cf. F. somnambulisme. See Somnambulation.] A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions appropriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.

Som*nam"bu*list (?), n. A person who is subject to somnambulism; one who walks in his sleep; a sleepwalker; a noctambulist.

Som*nam`bu*lis"tic (?), a. Of or pertaining to a somnambulist or somnambulism; affected by somnambulism; appropriate to the state of a somnambulist.

Whether this was an intentional and waking departure, or a somnambulistic leave-taking and walking in her sleep, may remain a subject of contention.

Dickens.

Som"ne (?), v. t. To summon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Som"ner (?), n. A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Som"ni*al (?), a. [L. somnialis dream bringing, fr. somnium dream, fr. somnus sleep.] Of or pertaining to sleep or dreams.

The somnial magic superinduced on, without suspending, the active powers of the mind.

Coleridge.

Som"ni*a*tive (?), a. Somnial; somniatory. [R.]

Som"ni*a*to*ry (?), a. Pertaining to sleep or dreams; somnial. [Obs. or R.] Urquhart.

Som*nic"u*lous (?), a. [L. somniculosus.] Inclined to sleep; drowsy; sleepy. [Obs.]

Som*nif"er*ous (?), a. [L. somnifer; somnus sleep + ferre to bring.] Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion. Walton.

Som*nif"ic (?), a. [L. somnificus; somnus sleep + facere to make.] Causing sleep; somniferous.

Som*nif"u*gous (?), a. [L. somnus sleep + fugare to put to flight.] Driving away sleep. [Obs.]

Som*nil"o*quence (?), n. The act of talking in one's sleep; somniloquism.

Som*nil"o*quism (?), n. The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy. Coleridge.

Som*nil"o*quist, n. One who talks in his sleep.

Som*nil"o*quous (?), a. [L. somnus sleep + loqui to speak.] Apt to talk in sleep.

Som*nil"o*quy (?), n. A talking in sleep; the talking of one in a state of somnipathy. [R.] Coleridge.

Som*nip"a*thist (?), n. A person in a state of somniapathy.

Som*nip"a*thy (?), n. [L. somnus sleep + Gr. &?; a suffering of the body, fr. &?;, &?;, to suffer.] Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like. [Written also somnopathy.]

{ Som"no*lence (?), Som"no*len*cy (?) }, n. [L. somnolentia: cf. F. somnolence.] Sleepiness; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.

Som"no*lent (?), a. [F. somnolent, L. somnolentus, from somnus sleep, akin to Gr. &?;, Skr. svapna sleep, dream, svap to sleep, Icel. sofa, AS. swefn sleep. Cf. Hypnotic, Somnambulism, Soporific.] Sleepy; drowsy; inclined to sleep. -- Som"no*lent*ly, adv.