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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Live :: Live (a.) Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing; as, a live man, or orator..
Rousing :: Rousing (a.) Having power to awaken or excite; exciting.
Awaken :: Awaken (v. t.) To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.
Braid :: Braid (v. i.) To start; to awake.
Daymare :: Daymare (n.) A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare..
Wakening :: Wakening (n.) The act of one who wakens; esp., the act of ceasing to sleep; an awakening..
Awake :: Awake (v. i.) To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death..
Vigilant :: Vigilant (a.) Attentive to discover and avoid danger, or to provide for safety; wakeful; watchful; circumspect; wary..
Respectable :: Respectable (a.) Worthy of respect; fitted to awaken esteem; deserving regard; hence, of good repute; not mean; as, a respectable citizen..
Wake :: Wake (v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
Wake :: Wake (n.) The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake..
Awaked :: Awaked () of Awak.
Rewake :: Rewake (v. t. & i.) To wake again.
Track :: Track (n.) A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel..
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken.
Provoking :: Provoking (a.) Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or treatment..
Pernoctalian :: Pernoctalian (n.) One who watches or keeps awake all night.
Disentrance :: Disentrance (v. t.) To awaken from a trance or an enchantment.
Abraid :: Abraid (v. t. & i.) To awake; to arouse; to stir or start up; also, to shout out..
Forwaked :: Forwaked (p. p. & a.) Tired out with excessive waking or watching.
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