The Clue
"Sore labour's bath": Shak (5 letter answer)
The Answer
SLEEP
Tags
Notes
The answer SLEEP is seen frequently, appearing about once every 160 puzzles.
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Nap
Rest
Shuteye
Slumber
The arms of Morpheus
Chandler's "The Big ___"
Doze off
Insomniac's relief
Kind of cycle
Kind of walker
Land of Nod
Lullaby word
Outcome of a lullaby
Period of quiescence
REM time
Sack out
Time out?
Yield to Morpheus
"Balm of hurt minds"
Catch 40 winks
Catch some Z's
Chronotherapy aids it
Coleridge's "gentle thing"
___ on it (delay a decision)
Macbeth's murder victim
"O magic ___!": Keats
R. Wilbur's "Walking to ___"
Ravell'd -sleave knitter
Sheep counter's quest
"Sore labour's bath"
Visit the land of Nod
"...an azure-lidded ___": Keats
Sore labour's bath, to Shakespeare
"The sweetest gift of heaven": Virgil
What "Macbeth doth murder"
Hamlet's word before "perchance to dream"
It was azure-lidded, to Keats
Definition
SLEEP as a noun:
1. (sleep, slumber) = a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn't get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber"
2. (sleep, sopor) = a torpid state resembling deep sleep
3. (sleep, nap) = a period of time spent sleeping; "he felt better after a little sleep"; "there wasn't time for a nap"
4. (rest, eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep, quietus) = euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep"
SLEEP as a verb:
1. (sleep, kip, slumber, log Z's, catch some Z's) = be asleep
2. be able to accommodate for sleeping; "This tent sleeps six people"