Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or belonging to Morpheus, a god of dreams in the later Roman poets.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or relating to Morpheus, to dreams, or to sleep.

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Examples

  • Up with the moon came the zooplankton: minute Crustacea, tiny crabs and shrimps with unpronounceable names, miniature fish larvae-all intent on a morphean orgy of feeding.

    With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • Up with the moon came the zooplankton: minute Crustacea, tiny crabs and shrimps with unpronounceable names, miniature fish larvae-all intent on a morphean orgy of feeding.

    With Friends Like These Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • Up with the moon came the zooplankton: minute Crustacea, tiny crabs and shrimps with unpronounceable names, miniature fish larvae-all intent on a morphean orgy of feeding.

    With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • A real double bed must be an ocean of morphean comfort.

    Icerigger Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1974

  • Opened them, and lay a moment, bridging the morphean chasm that lay between last night and this morning.

    Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926

  • Fanned by voluptuous gales, by morphean languors blessed.

    Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne, 1882

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