sleeping draft

A form of sleeping draught — A liquid medicine that induces sleep.

Meanings

nounsleeping draft (plural sleeping drafts)

plural sleeping drafts

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of sleeping draught.

    But the potion - which must have been a strong sleeping draft or its opposite, a stimulant or hallucinogen - can only have mitigated the agony.

    1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 130
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