present participle and gerund of sleep
‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
Asleep.
We found a sleeping child inside the church.
Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.
The state of being asleep, or an instance of this.
And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres / I slombred in a slepyng, it swyved so merye.
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