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, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state. "A man that waketh of his sleep." Chaucer. O sleep, thou ape of death. Shak.

Having no sleep; wakeful.

Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep. Shak. She waked her sleepy crew. Dryden.

t mistake God's goodness, nor imagine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken by him. Wake.

rk done by a smith; smithing. The din of all his smithery may some time or other possibly wake this noble duke. Burke.

To hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner. [Obs.] "[Slander] sneaks its head." Wake.

Fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise; solemn earnestness. Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage With solemn touches troubled thoughts. Milton. There reigned a solemn silence over all. Spenser.

To awake or excite to action; to rouse desire in; to summon; to appeal to; to invite. That fruit . . . solicited her longing eye. Milton. Sounds and some tangible qualities solicit their proper senses, and force an entrance to the mind. Locke.

g state; a state of sleep in which some of the senses and voluntary powers are partially awake; noctambulism.

Soundly. So sound he slept that naught might him awake. Spenser.

iver. [Prov. Eng.] (b) The red-throated diver. See Diver. -- Sprat mew (Zoöl.), the kittiwake gull.

surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden motion, or beginning of motion. The fright awakened Arcite with a start. Dryden.

fast manner; firmly. Steadfast believe that whatever God has revealed is infallibly true. Wake.

To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle. Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve. Doddridge.

Awakening or expressing the emotion of awe, adoration, veneration, heroic resolve, etc.; dignified; grand; solemn; stately; -- said of an impressive object in nature, of an action, of a discourse, of a work of art, of a spectacle, etc.; as, sublime scenery; a sublime deed. Easy in words thy style, in sense sublime. Pri…

One who, or that which, upholds or sustains; a sustainer. [Obs.] I waked again, for my sustain was the Lord. Milton.

To strike with a long stroke. Wake into voice each silent string, And sweep the sounding lyre. Pope.

ids. Prov. vi. 25. Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect, that he had no patience. Wake. I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, -- which took me more than all the outshining loveliness of her companions. Moore.…

The young of the kittiwake gull before the first molt.

hing blunt or heavy; a heavy fall. The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock. Tatler.