To make smooth or glossy; to polish or cause to be attractive.

That which makes smooth; varnish.

Someone who walks about in their sleep.

Of a garment, having no sleeves. / (obsolete) Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; useless.

The normal paralysis of the body that occurs during REM sleep.

A padded or insulated bag large enough to surround the whole body and which keeps the user warm while sleeping, used as a substitute for bedclothes.

especially, African sleeping sickness, an endemic infectious disease of humans and animals in tropical Africa, caused by a parasitic trypanosome, transmitted by the tsetse fly and characterized by fever, severe headache, joint pains and lymph node swelling in the early stages, followed by a neurological phase of extreme weakness, sleepiness, and deep coma leading to death

(idiomatic, reciprocal, euphemistic) To have sex with each other. / (idiomatic, reciprocal, euphemistic) To be intimate with each other in the same bed.

A group of people (sleepers) who inconspicuously remain dormant in a community until activated, by a prearranged signal, to perform acts of espionage, sabotage, and/or terrorism.

(rail transport) A railroad car with sleeping facilities for passengers travelling overnight.