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rung upon its feet. D. Webster. Corpse candle. (a) A thick candle formerly used at a lich wake, or the customary watching with a corpse on the night before its interment. (b) A luminous appearance, resembling the flame of a candle, sometimes seen in churchyards and other damp places, superstitiously regarded as portend…

ess. [Obs.] A reverend disputant of the same costiveness in public elocution with myself. Wakefield.

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

Exciting attention or inquiry; awakening surprise; inviting and rewarding inquisitiveness; not simple or plain; strange; rare. "Acurious tale" Shak. A multitude of curious analogies. Mocaulay. Many a quaint and curiousvolume of forgotten lore. E. A. Poe. Abstruse investigations in recondite branches of learning or scie…

In the dark. [Poetic] So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling. Shak. As the wakeful bird Sings darkling. Milton.

to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand. "In dawning youth." Dryden. When life awakes, and dawns at every line. Pope. Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid. Heber,

A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare. Dunglison.

n with of. We despaired even of life. 2 Cor. i. 8. Never despair of God's blessings here. Wake.

ht . . . is not acute enough to discern the minute texture of visible objects. Beattie. I wake, and I discern the truth. Tennyson.

To awaken from a trance or an enchantment. Hudibras.

To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.

tion, as if half asleep; to be drowsy. If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him. L'Estrange.

bly; betimes; as, come early. Those that me early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. You must wake and call me early. Tennyson.

ve of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice. Compelled me to awake the courteous Echo To give me answer from her mossy couch. Milton. Echo organ (Mus.), a set organ pipes inclosed in a box so as to produce a soft, distant effect; -- generally superseded by the swell. -- Echo stop (Mus.), a…

Warm or high praise; panegyric; strong commendation. His encomiums awakened all my ardor. W. Irving.

Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.

Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble. One of most enviable of human beings. Macaulay. -- En"vi*a*ble*ness, n. -- En"vi*a*bly, adv.

A waking up or awakening. [Obs.]

The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening. Bacon.

take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry. Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked. Milton.