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waking |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wake \Wake\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waked}or {Woke} (?); p. pr & vb n. {Waking}.] [AS. wacan, wacian; akin to OFries waka, OS wak?n, D. waken, G. wachen OHG. wahh?n, Icel. vaka, Sw vaken, Dan. vaage, Goth. wakan, v. i., uswakjan v. t., Skr. v[=a]jay to rouse, to impel. ????. Cf {Vigil}, {Wait}, v. i., {Watch}, v. i.] 1. To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep. The father waketh for the daughter. --Ecclus. xlii 9. Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps. --Milton. I can not think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it --Locke. 2. To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel. The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels. --Shak. 3. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology. --G. Eliot. 4. To be exited or roused up to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active. Gentle airs due at their hour To fan the earth now waked. --Milton. Then wake, my soul, to high desires. --Keble. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Waking \Wak"ing\, n. 1. The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake. 2. A watch; a watching. [Obs.] ``Bodily pain . . . standeth in prayer, in wakings, in fastings.'' --Chaucer. In the fourth waking of the night. --Wyclif (Matt. xiv. 25). From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: waking adj : marked by full consciousness or alertness; "worked every moment of my waking hours" [syn: {waking(a)}] n : the state of being awake [ant: {sleeping}]
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