SLEEPING DRAUGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sleeping draught mean? 

• SLEEPING DRAUGHT (noun)
  The noun SLEEPING DRAUGHT has 1 sense:

1. a soporific drug in the form of a pill (or tablet or capsule)

  Familiarity information: SLEEPING DRAUGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLEEPING DRAUGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A soporific drug in the form of a pill (or tablet or capsule)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

sleeping capsule; sleeping draught; sleeping pill; sleeping tablet

Hypernyms ("sleeping draught" is a kind of...):

lozenge; pill; tab; tablet (a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet)

hypnotic; soporific (a drug that induces sleep)

 Context examples 

And as for this soldier, even if I had not given him his sleeping draught, he would have slept soundly enough.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He very kindly made me up a sleeping draught, which he gave to me, telling me that it would do me no harm, as it was very mild....

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At last the princess agreed, but she told her chamberlain to give the prince a sleeping draught, that he might not hear or see her.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I felt the same vague terror which had come to me before and the same sense of some presence. I turned to wake Jonathan, but found that he slept so soundly that it seemed as if it was he who had taken the sleeping draught, and not I.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The old woman then mixed a sleeping draught with their wine, and before long they were all lying on the floor of the cellar, fast asleep and snoring.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

After a pause in which she was evidently ordering her thoughts, she began:—I took the sleeping draught which you had so kindly given me, but for a long time it did not act.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then the prince took care to throw away the sleeping draught; and when Lily came and began again to tell him what woes had befallen her, and how faithful and true to him she had been, he knew his beloved wife’s voice, and sprang up, and said, You have awakened me as from a dream, for the strange princess had thrown a spell around me, so that I had altogether forgotten you; but Heaven hath sent you to me in a lucky hour.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And the chamberlain told him all—how he had given him a sleeping draught, and how a poor maiden had come and spoken to him in his chamber, and was to come again that night.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)