Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A drink given to induce sleep.
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Examples
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He had been bled copiously; he had a little fever; he had had nothing to eat for very many hours; he had a sleeping-draught, and
The Virginians 2006
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A fortnight after Hooper Hamilton also succumbed to “egotism” and took an overdose of sleeping-draught at his summer-house in the Aland
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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I went to bed and got my man to mix me a sleeping-draught, and then told him to clear out.
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The bride would not, yet wanted very much to have the dress; at last she consented, but the page was to give the prince a sleeping-draught.
Household Tales 2003
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The robber, as soon as he heard the news, made a sleeping-draught, and bade the queen give it to her son before he went to bed that night.
The Olive Fairy Book 2003
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But the Prince took care not to drink the sleeping-draught.
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But she gave him a glass of wine in which she had poured a sleeping-draught.
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On this the page told all; that he had been forced to give him a sleeping-draught, because a poor girl had slept secretly in the chamber, and that he was to give him another that night.
Household Tales 2003
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The bride, however, gave him a sleeping-draught, and he slept so soundly that he heard nothing.
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Fever did not set in, but, day and night, Louise lay with wide, strained eyes; she refused nourishment, and the strongest sleeping-draught had no effect.
Maurice Guest 2003
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