Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 114
Solve (v. t.) To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up (what is obscure or difficult to be understood); to work out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a doubt; to solve difficulties; to solve a problem.
True piety would effectually solve such scruples. -- South.
God shall solve the dark decrees of fate. -- Tickell.
Syn: To explain; resolve; unfold; clear up.
Solve (n.) A solution; an explanation. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Solve (v.) Find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of; "did you solve the problem?"; "Work out your problems with the boss"; "this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out"; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He could not work the math problem" [syn: solve, work out, figure out, puzzle out, lick, work].
Solve (v.) Find the solution; "solve an equation"; "solve for x" [syn: resolve, solve].
Solve (v.) Settle, as of a debt; "clear a debt"; "solve an old debt" [syn: clear, solve].
Solve, () Parallel object-oriented language. "Message Pattern Specifications: A New Technique for Handling Errors in Parallel Object- Oriented Systems", J.A. Purchase et al, SIGPLAN Notices 25(10):116-125 (OOPSLA/ECOOP '90) (Oct 1990).
Solvency (n.) The quality or state of being solvent.
Solvency (n.) The ability to meet maturing obligations as they come due [ant: insolvency].
Solvency. () The state of a person who is able to pay all his debts; the opposite of insolvency. (q.v.)
Solvend (n.) A substance to be dissolved. [R.]
Solvent (a.) Having the power of dissolving; dissolving; as, a solvent fluid. "The solvent body." --Boyle.
Solvent (a.) Able or sufficient to pay all just debts; as, a solvent merchant; the estate is solvent.
Solvent (n.) (Chem.) A substance (usually liquid) suitable for, or employed in, solution, or in dissolving something; as, water is the appropriate solvent of most salts, alcohol of resins, ether of fats, and mercury or acids of metals, etc.
Solvent (n.) That which resolves; as, a solvent of mystery.
Solvent (a.) Capable of meeting financial obligations [ant: insolvent].
Solvent (n.) A liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances; "the solvent does not change its state in forming a solution" [syn: solvent, dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent].
Solvent (n.) A statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem; "they were trying to find a peaceful solution"; "the answers were in the back of the book"; "he computed the result to four decimal places" [syn: solution, answer, result, resolution, solvent].
Solver (n.) One who, or that which, solves.
Solver (n.) A thinker who focuses on the problem as stated and tries to synthesize information and knowledge to achieve a solution [syn: problem solver, solver, convergent thinker].
Solvible (a.) See Solvable.
Compare: Solvable
Solvable (a.) Susceptible of being solved, resolved, or explained; admitting of solution.
Solvable (a.) Capable of being paid and discharged; as, solvable obligations. -- Tooke.
Solvable (a.) Able to pay one's debts; solvent. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Solvable (a.) Capable of being solved; "such problems are perfectly solvable" [syn: solvable, resolvable].
Soly (adv.) Solely. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Soma (n.) (Anat.) The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail. -- B. G. Wilder. Somaj
Soma (n.) Leafless East Indian vine; its sour milky juice formerly used to make an intoxicating drink [syn: soma, haoma, Sarcostemma acidum].
Soma (n.) Personification of a sacred intoxicating drink used in Vedic ritual.
Soma (n.) Alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" [syn: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh].
Somaj (n.) Alt. of Samaj.
Samaj (n.) A society; a congregation; a worshiping assembly, or church, esp. of the Brahmo-somaj. [India] Somali
Somali (n.) Alt. of Somal.
Somal (n.) (Ethnol.) A Hamitic people of East Central Africa.
Somal (n.) of or pertaining to Somalia or to the inhabitants of Somalia.
Somali (a.) Of or relating to the African republic of Somalia or its people or their language and culture; "Somali coffee is excellent" [syn: Somalian, Somali].
Somali (n.) A member of a tall dark (mostly Muslim) people inhabiting Somalia [syn: Somalian, Somali].
Somali (n.) The Cushitic language spoken by the Somali.
Somalia (n.) 索馬利亞聯邦共和國 [6] （英語： Federal Republic of Somalia），簡稱索馬利亞（英語：Somalia），是一個東非國家，位於索馬利亞半島上，東濱印度洋，北臨亞丁灣，與衣索比亞、肯亞、吉布地相鄰。索馬利亞目前處於內戰狀態，戰前首都為摩加迪休（Mogadishu）。位於索國西北部的索馬利蘭為一獨立的政治實體。索馬利亞的地理位置，居於地中海與印度洋的亞丁灣之南，是各國貨輪出入蘇伊士運河的必經海路。2004年的《奈洛比全面協定》簽署後，索馬利亞成立過渡政府，2012年8月23日索馬利亞結束為期8年的過渡期，8月29日選出聯邦議會議長，9月10日全國選民普選產生新總統，9月17日總統內閣人選經聯邦議會批准成立，9月21日索馬利亞變為聯邦州縣自治管理，同時恢復實行聯邦憲政。
Somalia (n.) Officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, Is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, the Indian Ocean to the east, and Kenya to the southwest. Somalia has the longest coastline on Africa's mainland, [10] and its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plains and highlands. [3] Climatically, hot conditions prevail year-round, with periodic monsoon winds and irregular rainfall. [11]
Somalia has an estimated population of around 14.3 million. [4] Around 85% of its residents are ethnic Somalis, [3] who have historically inhabited the northern part of the country. Ethnic minorities are largely concentrated in the southern regions. [12] The official languages of Somalia are Somali and Arabic, both of which belong to the Afroasiatic family. [3] Most people in the country are Muslim, [13] with the majority being Sunni. [14]
In antiquity, Somalia was an important commercial centre. [15] [16] It is among the most probable locations of the fabled ancient Land of Punt. [17] [18] [19] During the Middle Ages, several powerful Somali empires dominated the regional trade, including the Ajuran Empire, the Adal Sultanate, the Warsangali Sultanate, and the Geledi Sultanate. In the late 19th century, through a succession of treaties with these kingdoms, the British and Italian empires gained control of parts of the coast and established the colonies of British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland. [20] [21] In the interior, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan's Dervish State repelled the British Empire four times and forced it to retreat to the coastal region, [22] before succumbing to defeat in 1920 by British airpower. [23] The toponym Somalia was coined by the Italian explorer Luigi Robecchi Bricchetti (1855–1926). [24] Italy acquired full control of the northeastern, central and southern parts of the area after successfully waging the so-called Campaign of the Sultanates against the ruling Majeerteen Sultanate and Sultanate of Hobyo. [21] Italian occupation lasted until 1941, yielding to British military administration. British Somaliland would remain a protectorate, while Italian Somaliland in 1949 became a United Nations Trusteeship under Italian administration, the Trust Territory of Somaliland. In 1960, the two regions united to form the independent Somali Republic under a civilian government. [25]
The Supreme Revolutionary Council seized power in 1969 and established the Somali Democratic Republic. Led by Mohamed Siad Barre, this government later collapsed in 1991 as the Somali Civil War broke out. Various armed factions began competing for influence in the power vacuum, particularly in the south. During this period, due to the absence of a central government, Somalia was a "failed state", and residents returned to customary and religious law in most regions. A few autonomous regions, including the Somaliland and Puntland administrations emerged in the north. The early 2000s saw the creation of fledgling interim federal administrations. The Transitional National Government (TNG) was established in 2000, followed by the formation of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in 2004, which reestablished national institutions such as the military. [3] [3] [26] In 2006, the TFG, assisted by Ethiopian troops, assumed control of most of the nation's southern conflict zones from the newly formed Islamic Courts Union (ICU). The ICU subsequently splintered into more radical groups such as Al-Shabaab, which battled the TFG and its AMISOM allies for control of the region. [3]
By mid-2012, the insurgents had lost most of the territory that they had seized. In 2011–2012, a political process providing benchmarks for the establishment of permanent democratic institutions was launched. [27] Within this administrative framework a new provisional constitution was passed in August 2012, [28] [29] which reformed Somalia as a federation. [30] Following the end of the TFG's interim mandate the same month, the Federal Government of Somalia, the first permanent central government in the country since the start of the civil war, was formed [31] and a period of reconstruction began in Mogadishu. [27] [32] Somalia has maintained an informal economy, mainly based on livestock, remittances from Somalis working abroad, and telecommunications. [3] [33]
Somatic (a.) Of or pertaining to the body as a whole; corporeal; as, somatic death; somatic changes.
Somatic (a.) Of or pertaining to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal; as, the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo.
Somatic death. See the Note under Death, n., 1.
Somatic (a.) Affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect"; "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness" [syn: bodily, corporal, corporeal, somatic].
Somatical (a.) Somatic.
Somatics (n.) The science which treats of the general properties of matter; somatology.
Somatist (n.) One who admits the existence of material beings only; a materialist. -- Glanvill.
Somatocyst (n.) (Zool.) A cavity in the primary nectocalyx of certain Siphonophora. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.
Somatology (n.) The doctrine or the science of the general properties of material substances; somatics.
Somatology (n.) A treatise on the human body; anatomy. -- Dunglison.
Somatology (n.) (Biol.) The science which treats of anatomy and physiology, apart from psychology.
Somatology (n.) (Anthropol.) The consideration of the physical characters of races and classes of men and of mankind in general.
Somatome (n.) (Anat. & Zool.) See Somite.
Compare: Somite
Somite (n.) (Anat. & Zool.) One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere. -- So*mit`ic, a.
Somite (n.) One of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally [syn: metamere, somite].
Somatopleure (n.) (Anat.) The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchnopleure.
Compare: Splanchnopleure
Splanchnopleure (Anat.) The inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure. -- Splanch`no*pleu"ric, a.
Somatopleuric (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the somatopleure.
Somatotropism (n.) (Physiol.) A directive influence exercised by a mass of matter upon growing organs. -- Encyc. Brit. Somber
Somber (a.) Alt. of Sombre.
Sombre (a.) Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house.
Sombre (a.) Melancholy; sad; grave; depressing; as, a somber person; somber reflections.
The dinner was silent and somber; happily it was also short. -- Beaconsfield. Somber
Somber (v. t.) Alt. of Sombre.
Sombre (v. t.) To make somber, or dark; to make shady. [R.] Somber
Somber (n.) Alt. of Sombre.
Sombre (n.) Gloom; obscurity; duskiness; somberness. [Obs.] Somberly
Somber (a.) Lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes" [syn: drab, sober, somber, sombre].
Somber (a.) Grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood" [syn: somber, sombre, melancholy].
Somberly (adv.) Alt. of Sombrely.
Sombrely (adv.) In a somber manner; sombrously; gloomily; despondingly. Somberness
Somberly (adv.) In a somber manner; "`That's sure bad news,' said Dowd, somberly" [syn: somberly, sombrely].
Somberness (n.) Alt. of Sombreness.
Sombreness (n.) The quality or state of being somber; gloominess.
Somberness (n.) A state of partial or total darkness; "he struck a match to dispel the gloom" [syn: gloom, somberness, sombreness].
Somberness (n.) A feeling of melancholy apprehension [syn: gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombreness].
Somberness (n.) A manner that is serious and solemn [syn: graveness, gravity, sobriety, soberness, somberness, sombreness].
Sombrero (n.) A kind of broad-brimmed hat, worn in Spain and in Spanish America. -- Marryat.
Sombrero (n.) One of the islands of Saint Christopher-Nevis.
Sombrero (n.) A straw hat with a tall crown and broad brim; worn in American southwest and in Mexico
Sombrous (a.) Gloomy; somber. "Tall and sombrous pines." -- Longfellow. -- Som"brous*ly, (adv.) -- Som"brous*ness, (n.)
-some () A combining form or suffix from Gr. sw^ma (gen. sw`matos) the body; as in merosome, a body segment; cephalosome, etc.
-some (a.) An adjective suffix having primarily the sense of like or same, and indicating a considerable degree of the thing or quality denoted in the first part of the compound; as in mettlesome, full of mettle or spirit; gladsome, full of gladness; winsome, blithesome, etc.
Some (a.) Consisting of a greater or less portion or sum; composed of a quantity or number which is not stated; -- used to express an indefinite quantity or number; as, some wine; some water; some persons. Used also pronominally; as, I have some.
Some theoretical writers allege that there was a time when there was no such thing as society. -- Blackstone.
Some (a.) A certain; one; -- indicating a person, thing, event, etc., as not known individually, or designated more specifically; as, some man, that is, some one man. "Some brighter clime." -- Mrs. Barbauld.
Some man praiseth his neighbor by a wicked intent. -- Chaucer.
Most gentlemen of property, at some period or other of their lives, are ambitious of representing their county in Parliament. -- Blackstone.
Some (a.) Not much; a little; moderate; as, the censure was to some extent just.
Some (a.) About; near; more or less; -- used commonly with numerals, but formerly also with a singular substantive of time or distance; as, a village of some eighty houses; some two or three persons; some hour hence. -- Shak.
The number slain on the rebel's part were some two thousand. -- Bacon.
Some (a.) Considerable in number or quality. "Bore us some leagues to sea." -- Shak.
On its outer point, some miles away.
The lighthouse lifts its massive masonry. -- Longfellow.
Some (a.) Certain; those of one part or portion; -- in distinct from other or others; as, some men believe one thing, and others another.
Some [seeds] fell among thorns; . . . but other fell into good ground. -- Matt. xiii. 7, 8.
Some (a.) A part; a portion; -- used pronominally, and followed sometimes by of; as, some of our provisions.
Your edicts some reclaim from sins, But most your life and blest example wins. -- Dryden.
All and some, one and all. See under All, adv. [Obs.]
Note: The illiterate in the United States and Scotland often use some as an adverb, instead of somewhat, or an equivalent expression; as, I am some tired; he is some better; it rains some, etc.
Some . . . some, one part . . . another part; these . . . those; -- used distributively.
Some to the shores do fly, Some to the woods, or whither fear advised. -- Daniel.
Note: Formerly used also of single persons or things: this one . . . that one; one . . . another.
Some in his bed, some in the deep sea. -- Chaucer.
Some (adv.) (Of quantities) Imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party" [syn: approximately, about, close to, just about, some, roughly, more or less, around, or so].
Some (a.) Quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity; "have some milk"; "some roses were still blooming"; "having some friends over"; "some apples"; "some paper" [ant: all(a), no(a)].
Some (a.) Relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent; "we talked for some time"; "he was still some distance away."
Some (a.) Relatively many but unspecified in number; "they were here for some weeks"; "we did not meet again for some years."
Some (a.) Remarkable; "that was some party"; "she is some skier."
Somebody (n.) A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.
Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me. -- Luke viii. 46.
We must draw in somebody that may stand 'Twixt us and danger. -- Denham.
Somebody (n.) A person of consideration or importance.
Before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody. -- Acts v. 36.
Somebody (n.) A human being; "there was too much for one person to do" [syn: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul].
Somedeal (adv.) In some degree; somewhat. [Written also sumdel, sumdeale,
and sumdele.] [Obs.] "She was somedeal deaf." -- Chaucer.
Thou lackest somedeal their delight. -- Spenser.
Somehow (adv.) In one way or another; in some way not yet known or designated; by some means; as, the thing must be done somehow; he lives somehow.
By their action upon one another they may be swelled somehow, so as to shorten the length. -- Cheyne.
Note: The indefiniteness of somehow is emphasized by the addition of or other.
Although youngest of the familly, he has somehow or other got the entire management of all the others. -- Sir W. Scott. Somersault
Somehow (adv.) In some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means; "they managed somehow"; "he expected somehow to discover a woman who would love him"; "he tried to make is someway acceptable" [syn: somehow, someway, someways, in some way, in some manner].
Somehow (adv.) For some unspecified reason; "It doesn't seem fair somehow"; "he had me dead to rights but somehow I got away with it."
Somersault (n.) Alt. of Somerset.
Somerset (n.) A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end. [Written also summersault, sommerset, summerset, etc.] "The vaulter's sombersalts." -- Donne.
Now I'll only Make him break his neck in doing a sommerset. -- Beau. & Fl.
Somersault (n.) An acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return [syn: somersault, somerset, summersault, summerset, somersaulting, flip].
Somersault (v.) Do a somersault.
Something (n.) Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing.
There is something in the wind. -- Shak.
The whole world has something to do, something to talk of, something to wish for, and something to be employed about. -- Pope.
Something attemped, something done, Has earned a night's repose. -- Longfellow.
Something (n.) A part; a portion, more or less; an indefinite quantity or degree; a little.
Something yet of doubt remains. -- Milton.
Something of it arises from our infant state. -- I. Watts.
Something (n.) A person or thing importance.
If a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. -- Gal. vi. 3.
Something (adv.) In some degree; somewhat; to some extent; at some distance. -- Shak.
I something fear my father's wrath. -- Shak.
We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly. -- Burke.
My sense of touch is something coarse. -- Tennyson.
It must be done to-night, And something from the palace. -- Shak.
Sometime (a.) Having been formerly; former; late; whilom.
Our sometime sister, now our queen. -- Shak.
Ion, our sometime darling, whom we prized. -- Talfourd.
Sometime (adv.) At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.
Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me? -- Shak.
Sometime (adv.) At a time undefined; once in a while; now and then; sometimes.
Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapor sometime like a bear or lion. -- Shak.
Sometime (adv.) At one time or other hereafter; as, I will do it sometime. "Sometime he reckon shall." -- Chaucer.
Sometime (adv.) At some indefinite or unstated time; "let's get together sometime"; "everything has to end sometime"; "It was to be printed sometime later."
Sometime (a.) Belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover" [syn: erstwhile(a), former(a), old, onetime(a), one-time(a), quondam(a), sometime(a)].
Sometimes (adv.) Formerly; sometime. [Obs.]
That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. -- Shak.
Sometimes (adv.) At times; at intervals; now and then; occasionally.
It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. -- Jer. Taylor.
Sometimes . . . sometimes, at certain times . . . at certain other times; as, sometimes he is earnest, sometimes he is frivolous.
Sometimes (a.) Former; sometime. [Obs.]
Thy sometimes brother's wife. -- Shak.
Sometimes (adv.) On certain occasions or in certain cases but not always; "sometimes she wished she were back in England"; "sometimes her photography is breathtaking"; "sometimes they come for a month; at other times for six months."
Somewhat (adv.) In some degree or measure; a little.
His giantship is gone, somewhat crestfallen. -- Milton.
Somewhat back from the village street. -- Longfellow.
Somewhat (n.) More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. -- Grew.
Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost. -- Dryden.
Somewhat (n.) A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
Here come those that worship me.
They think that I am somewhat. -- Tennyson.
Somewhat (adv.) To a small degree or extent; "his arguments were somewhat self-contradictory"; "the children argued because one slice of cake was slightly larger than the other" [syn: slightly, somewhat, more or less].
Somewhat (adv.) To a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers" [syn: reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably] [ant: immoderately, unreasonably].
Somewhat (adv.) (Formal) (C1) 有點，稍微有些 To some degree.
// The resort has changed somewhat over the last few years.
// She's somewhat more confident than she used to be.
// We were somewhat tired after our long walk.
Somewhat of 在某種程度上，有些 To some degree.
// She was known for being somewhat of a strange character.
Somewhen (adv.) At some indefinite time. [R.]
Somewhere (adv.) In some place unknown or not specified; in one place or another. "Somewhere nigh at hand." -- Milton.
Somewhere (adv.) In or at or to some place; "she must be somewhere"; (`someplace' is used informally for `somewhere') [syn: somewhere, someplace].
Somewhere (n.) An indefinite or unknown location; "they moved to somewhere in Spain."
Somewhile (adv.) Once; for a time.
Though, under color of shepherds, somewhile There crept in wolves, full of fraud and guile. -- Spenser.
Somewhither (adv.) To some indeterminate place; to some place or other.
Driven by the winds of temptation somewhither. -- Barrow.
Somite (n.) (Anat. & Zool.) One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is is composed; somatome; metamere. -- So*mit`ic, a.
Somite (n.) One of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally [syn: metamere, somite].
Sommeil (n.) [F.] Slumber; sleep.
Somersault, Somerset, (n.) A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end. [Written also summersault, sommerset, summerset, etc.] "The vaulter's sombersalts." -- Donne.
Now I'll only Make him break his neck in doing a sommerset. -- Beau. & Fl.
Sommerset (n.) See Somersault.
Somnambular (a.) Of or pertaining to somnambulism; somnambulistic. -- Mrs. Browning.
Somnambulate (v. i. & t.) To walk when asleep.
Somnambulate (v.) Walk in one's sleep [syn: sleepwalk, somnambulate].
Somnambulation (n.) The act of walking in sleep, called also sleepwalking.
Somnambulate (n.) Walking by a person who is asleep [syn: sleepwalking, somnambulism, somnambulation, noctambulism, noctambulation].
Somnambulator (n.) A somnambulist.
Syn: sleepwalker.
Somnambule (n.) [F.] A somnambulist.
Somnambulic (a.) Somnambulistic.
Compare: Somnambulistic
Somnambulistic (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.
Somnambulism (n.) 夢遊病 A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions approppriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.
Somnambulism (n.) Walking by a person who is asleep [syn: sleepwalking, somnambulism, somnambulation, noctambulism, noctambulation].
Somnambulism (n.) Med. juris. Sleep walking.
Somnambulism (n.) This is sometimes an inferior species of insanity, the patient being unconscious of what he is doing. A case is mentioned of a monk who was remarkable for simplicity, candor and probity, while awake, but who during his sleep in the night, would steal, rob, and even plunder the dead. Another case is related of a pious clergyman, who during his sleep, would plunder even his own church. And a case occurred in Maine, where the somnambulist attempted to hang himself, but fortunately tied the rope to his feet, instead of his neck. Ray. Med. Jur. Sec. 294.
Somnambulism (n.) It is evident, that if an act should be done by a sleep walker, while totally unconscious of his act, he would not be liable to punishment, because the intention (q.v.) and will (q.v.) would be wanting. Take, for example, the following singular case: A monk late one evening, in the presence of the prior of the convent, while in a state of somnambulism, entered the room of the prior, his eyes open but fixed, his features contracted into a frown, and with a knife in his hand. He walked straight up to the bed, as if to ascertain if the prior were there, and then gave three stabs, which penetrated the bed clothes, and a mat which served for the purpose of a mattress; he returned. with an air of satisfaction, and his features relaxed. On being questioned the next day by the prior as to what he had dreamed the preceding night, the monk confessed he had dreamed that his mother had been murdered by the prior, and that her spirit had appeared to him and cried for vengeance, that he was transported with fury at the sight, and ran directly to stab the assassin; that shortly after be awoke covered with perspiration, and rejoiced to find it was only a dream. Georget, Des Maladies Mentales, 127.
Somnambulism (n.) A similar case occurred in England, in the last century. Two persons, who had been hunting in the day, slept together at night; one of them was renewing the chase in his dream, and, imagining himself present at the death of the stag, cried out aloud, "I'll kill him! I'll kill him!" The other, awakened by the noise, got out of bed, and, by the light of the moon, saw the sleeper give several deadly stabs, with a knife, on the part of the bed his companion had just quitted. Harvey's Meditations on the Night, note 35; Guy, Med. Jur. 265.
Somnambulist (n.) 夢行者；夢遊症患者 A person who is subject to somnambulism; one who walks in his sleep; a sleepwalker; a noctambulist.
Syn: somnambulator.
Somnambulist (n.) Someone who walks about in their sleep [syn: sleepwalker, somnambulist, noctambulist].
Somnambulistic (a.) 夢遊（症）的 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.
Somne (v. t.) To summon. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Somner (n.) A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court. [Obs.] -- Piers Plowman.
Somnial (a.) Of or pertaining to sleep or dreams.
The somnial magic superinduced on, without suspending, the active powers of the mind. -- Coleridge.
Somniative (a.) Somnial; somniatory. [R.]
Somniatory (a.) Pertaining to sleep or dreams; somnial. [Obs. or R.] -- Urquhart.
Somniculous (a.) Inclined to sleep; drowsy; sleepy. [Obs.]
Somniferous (a.) Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion. -- Walton.
Somniferous comes from Latin somnifer, "sleep-bringing," from somnus, "sleep" + ferre, "to bring."
Somniferous (a.) Sleep inducing [syn: soporific, soporiferous, somniferous, somnific, hypnogogic, hypnagogic].
Somnific (a.) Causing sleep; somniferous.
Somnific (a.) Sleep inducing [syn: soporific, soporiferous, somniferous, somnific, hypnogogic, hypnagogic].
Somnifugous (a.) Driving away sleep. [Obs.]
Somniloquence (n.) The act of talking in one's sleep; somniloquism.
Somniloquism (n.) The act or habit of talking in one's sleep; somniloquy. -- Coleridge.
Somniloquism (n.) Uttering speech while asleep [syn: sleep talking, somniloquy, somniloquism].
Somniloquist (n.) One who talks in his sleep.
Somniloquist (n.) Someone who talks while asleep.
Somniloquous (a.) Apt to talk in sleep.
Somniloquy (n.) A talking in sleep; the talking of one in a state of somnipathy. [R.] -- Coleridge.
Somniloquy (n.) Uttering speech while asleep [syn: sleep talking, somniloquy, somniloquism].