adj
Asleep.
We found a sleeping child inside the church.
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.
noun
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.
[…] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.