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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Wake \Wake\, n. 1. The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake. [Obs. or Poetic] [1913 Webster] Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Singing her flatteries to my morning wake. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil. [1913 Webster] The warlike wakes continued all the night, And funeral games played at new returning light. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] The wood nymphs, decked with daises trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. Specifically: (a) (Ch. of Eng.) 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. [1913 Webster] Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England. --Ld. Berners. [1913 Webster] And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer. --Drayton. [1913 Webster] (b) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish. "Blithe as shepherd at a wake." --Cowper. [1913 Webster] {Wake play}, the ceremonies and pastimes connected with a wake. See {Wake}, n., 3 (b), above. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Wake \Wake\, n. [Originally, an open space of water s?rrounded by ice, and then, the passage cut through ice for a vessel, probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. v["o]k a hole, opening in ice, Sw. vak, Dan. vaage, perhaps akin to E. humid.] The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army. [1913 Webster] This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster] Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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.] [1913 Webster] 1. To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep. [1913 Webster] The father waketh for the daughter. --Ecclus. xlii. 9. [1913 Webster] Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps. --Milton. [1913 Webster] I can not think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 2. To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel. [1913 Webster] The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up. [1913 Webster] He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology. --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster] 4. To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active. [1913 Webster] Gentle airs due at their hour To fan the earth now waked. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Then wake, my soul, to high desires. --Keble. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Wake \Wake\, v. t. 1. To rouse from sleep; to awake. [1913 Webster] The angel . . . came again and waked me. --Zech. iv. 1. [1913 Webster] 2. To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. "I shall waken all this company." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Lest fierce remembrance wake my sudden rage. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Even Richard's crusade woke little interest in his island realm. --J. R. Green. [1913 Webster] 3. To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive. [1913 Webster] To second life Waked in the renovation of the just. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 4. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: wake n 1: the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured" [syn: {aftermath}, {wake}, {backwash}] 2: an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii [syn: {Wake Island}, {Wake}] 3: the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward; "the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe" [syn: {wake}, {backwash}] 4: a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; "there's no weeping at an Irish wake" [syn: {wake}, {viewing}] v 1: be awake, be alert, be there [ant: {catch some Z's}, {kip}, {log Z's}, {sleep}, {slumber}] 2: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" [syn: {wake up}, {awake}, {arouse}, {awaken}, {wake}, {come alive}, {waken}] [ant: {dope off}, {doze off}, {drift off}, {drop off}, {drowse off}, {fall asleep}, {flake out}, {nod off}] 3: arouse or excite feelings and passions; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred" [syn: {inflame}, {stir up}, {wake}, {ignite}, {heat}, {fire up}] 4: make aware of; "His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation" 5: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn: {awaken}, {wake}, {waken}, {rouse}, {wake up}, {arouse}] [ant: {cause to sleep}]