WAKING

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake.

2.
n.

A watch; a watching. [Obs.] "Bodily pain . . . standeth in prayer, in wakings, in fastings." Chaucer. In the fourth waking of the night. Wyclif (Matt. xiv. 25).

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