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Wake
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
(2):
(n.) The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
(3):
(n.) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
(4):
(v. t.) To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
(5):
(v. t.) To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
(6):
(n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
(7):
(v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awake.
(8):
(v. i.) To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
(9):
(v. t.) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
(10):
(v. i.) To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
(11):
(v. i.) To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
(12):
(n.) The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
(13):
(v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; - often with up.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Wake'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/w/wake.html. 1828.
