See Also: soporific(medicine)
soporific(dictionary)
soporific(dictionary)

traveller (iou) and soporific (iou)


traveller (iou)



traveller noun. Also travailer, traveler. See also TRAVAILER. LME.
[from Travel verb + -ER1.]
I.
See TRAVAILER. LME.
II.
a. A person who is travelling or on a journey; a person who travels or journeys, esp. abroad. LME.
b. An itinerant beggar, a hawker, (now dial.); a Gypsy; Austral. an itinerant worker. L16.
c. A representative of a company who visits shops etc. to show samples and gain orders. Also commercial traveller. L18.
An animal that can go quickly or for long distances. M17.
A device or mechanism which moves or runs along a rope, groove, etc., or acts as a guide for something else to move or run along; esp. a travelling crane. Also spec. (Nautical), an iron ring able to move freely along a mast, spar, or rope. M18.
b. A tool for measuring the circumference esp. of a wheel. Now dial. L19.
A piece of luggage; a suitcase, a trunk, a bag. Chiefly US. L19.
Phrases: commercial traveller: see sense 2c above. New Age traveller. traveller's cheque, travellers' cheque, travellers cheque a cheque for a fixed amount of money which may be cashed or used in payment abroad, on the holder's signature. traveller's joy a woody climbing plant of the buttercup family, Clematis vitalba, of hedges on chalk and limestone, with greenish-white flowers and feathery fruiting styles; also called old man's beard. traveller's palm, traveller's tree a palmlike tree, Ravenala madagascariensis (family Strelitziaceae), native to Madagascar and valued by travellers for the rainwater held in the bases of the leaf-stalks. traveller's tale an incredible and probably untrue story.
travelleress noun (rare) a female traveller E19.

soporific (iou)



soporific adjective & noun. M17.
[formed as SOPOR + -FIC.]
A. adjective.
Inducing or tending to produce sleep; transf. very tedious or boring. M17.
J. McCarthy Those who tried to listen found the soporific influence irresistible. O. Sacks Gentle..motion is normally soothing and soporific.
Of the Nature of, characterized by, or resembling sleep or sleepiness. M18.
Of a person: drowsy, sleepy, somnolent. M19.
b. noun.
A drug, influence, etc., which induces sleep. E18.
R. Church Intellectuals using crime-stories as bed-time soporifics.
A sleepy or somnolent person. rare. E19.
soporifical adjective = SOPORIFIC adjective E19.
soporifically adverb E19.