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eagerness. When you pray, let it be with attention, with fervency, and with perseverance. Wake.

Knowing; wide awake; fully understanding another's meaning. [Slang] Dickens.

ective or past participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected. To get rid of fools and scoundrels. Pope. His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. Coleridge.

The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness. The debt immense of endless gratitude. Milton.

lly in the plural. In that soft season when descending showers Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers. Pope.

Hackneyed; hired; mercenary. Wakefield. Hack writer, a hack; one who writes for hire. "A vulgar hack writer." Macaulay.

Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil.

Noise; confusion; uproar. That, with the hurly, death itself awakes. Shak.

is incorruptible. Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances. Wake.

root resembling a small turnip, but with a very acrid juice. See Jack in the Pulpit, and Wake-robin. -- Indian wheat, maize or Indian corn. -- Indian yellow. (a) An intense rich yellow color, deeper than gamboge but less pure than cadmium. (b) See Euxanthin.

ffect, or of power to produce it; inefficacy. The ineffectualness of some men's devotion. Wake.

Want of sleep; inability to sleep; wakefulness; sleeplessness.

To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work. To love our native country . . . to be interested in its concerns is natural to all men. Dryden. A goddess who used to interest he…

Between the times of sleeping; in an interval of wakefulness. [R.]

A slight shake; a shake or push intended to give notice or awaken attention; a push; a jolt. To give them by turns an invisible jog. Swift.

Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error. "Lamentable helplessness." Burke.

Morbid drowsiness; continued or profound sleep, from which a person can scarcely be awaked.

e the bier was placed to await clergyman; a corpse gate. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- Lich wake, the wake, or watching, held over a corpse before burial. [Prov Eng.] Chaucer. -- Lich wall, the wall of a churchyard or burying ground. -- Lich way, the path by which the dead are carried to the grave. [Prov. Eng.]…

sails, with, also, the studding sails and flying jib. Dana. -- Light sleeper, one easily wakened. -- Light weight, a prize fighter, boxer, wrestler, or jockey, who is below a standard medium weight. Cf. Feather weight, under Feather. [Cant] -- To make light of, to treat as of little consequence; to slight; to disrega…

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