Hypnosn.
/ˈhɪpnɒs/, U.S. /ˈhɪpnɔs/, /ˈhɪpˌnɑs/ Name of the god of sleep in Greek mythology.
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1906 T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 40 It is eleven o'clock now and I ought to have thoughts on Hypnos.
1938 W. de la Mare Memory & Other Poems 38 What of the strange world that teems—Where brooding Hypnos reigns—with dreams?
1970 Oxf. Classical Dict. (ed. 2) 535/2 Throughout antiquity Hypnos was usually thought of as a winged youth who touches the foreheads of the tired with a branch..or pours sleep-inducing liquid from a horn.
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n.1906- to smite to the floor
- to smite to the ground
- to smite with a hammer
- to smite with the hammer
- to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib
- to smite, strike a stroke
- to smoke a pipe
- to smoke like a chimney
- to smoke the skin coat of
- to smooth a person's ruffled feathers
- to smooth it
- to smooth one's rumpled feathers
- to smooth ruffled feathers
- to smuggle the coal
- to snap a person's nose off
- to snap back
- to snap into
- to snap one's fingers at
- to snap one's nose, or head, off
- to snap out of
- to snap short
- to snap to
- to snarl up
- to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
- to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory