Definition of wake

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Wake (n.) The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil..

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Wake :: Wake (n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish..
Disentrance :: Disentrance (v. t.) To awaken from a trance or an enchantment.
Wakening :: Wakening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wake.
Somnambulism :: Somnambulism (n.) A condition of the nervous system in which an individual during sleep performs actions approppriate to the waking state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.
Gratitude :: Gratitude (a.) The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness.
Wide-awake :: Wide-awake (n.) A broad-brimmed, low-crowned felt hat..
Sublime :: Sublime (superl.) Awakening or expressing the emotion of awe, adoration, veneration, heroic resolve, etc.; dignified; grand; solemn; stately; -- said of an impressive object in nature, of an action, of a discourse, of a work of art, of a spectacle, etc.; as, sublime scenery; a sublime deed..
Awake :: Awake (v. t.) To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties..
Wake :: Wake (v. t.) To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive..
Wake :: Wake (n.) The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army..
Waked :: Waked (imp. & p. p.) of Wak.
Kittiwake :: Kittiwake (n.) A northern gull (Rissa tridactyla), inhabiting the coasts of Europe and America. It is white, with black tips to the wings, and has but three toes..
Engaged :: Engaged (a.) Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.
Awakening :: Awakening (a.) Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn..
Wake :: Wake (v. t.) To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body..
Fly :: Fly (a.) Knowing; wide awake; fully understanding another's meaning.
Wake :: Wake (v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
Rewake :: Rewake (v. t. & i.) To wake again.
Forwaked :: Forwaked (p. p. & a.) Tired out with excessive waking or watching.
Psychopannychism :: Psychopannychism (n.) The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body..
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