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Definition of wake

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Wake (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..

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Vigilance :: Vigilance (n.) The quality or state of being vigilant; forbearance of sleep; wakefulness.

Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse..

Intersomnious :: Intersomnious (a.) Between the times of sleeping; in an interval of wakefulness.

Cuckoopint :: Cuckoopint (n.) A plant of the genus Arum (A. maculatum); the European wake-robin.

Waken :: Waken (v. i.) To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.

Disentrance :: Disentrance (v. t.) To awaken from a trance or an enchantment.

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..

Bang :: Bang (v. i.) To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano..

Insomnia :: Insomnia (n.) Want of sleep; inability to sleep; wakefulness; sleeplessness.

Live :: Live (a.) Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing; as, a live man, or orator..

Wake :: Wake (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..

Waken :: Waken (v. t.) To excite or rouse from sleep; to wake; to awake; to awaken.

Awaken :: Awaken (v. t.) To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.

Braid :: Braid (v. i.) To start; to awake.

Call :: Call (v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awaken.

Awaked :: Awaked (p. p.) of Awak.

Abraid :: Abraid (v. t. & i.) To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out..

Oppugnant :: Oppugnant (a.) Tending to awaken hostility; hostile; opposing; warring.

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.

Wake :: Wake (n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish..