sleepe

English

Noun

sleepe (countable and uncountable, plural sleepes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of sleep.

Verb

sleepe (third-person singular simple present sleepes, present participle sleeping, simple past and past participle slepte)

  1. Obsolete spelling of sleep.
    • 1633, John Donne, Loves Diet:
      Now negligent of sports I lye,
      And now as other Fawkners use,
      I spring a mistresse, sweare, write, sigh and weepe:
      And the game kill'd, or lost, goe talk, and sleepe.

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

sleepe

  1. alternative form of sleep
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