Search the Dictionary

The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army. This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions. De Quincey. Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels. Thackeray.

Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum).

Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant. Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright. Dryden. -- Wake"ful*ly, adv. -- Wake"ful*ness, n.

To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened. Early, Turnus wakening with the light. Dryden.

One who wakens.

The act of one who wakens; esp., the act of ceasing to sleep; an awakening.

One who wakes.

Time during which one is awake. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

To rouse from sleep.; to wake; to awaken. Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her. Tennyson. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish. Matt. viii. 25.

To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake. [He] is dispatched Already to awaken whom thou nam'st. Cowper. Their consciences are thoroughly awakened. Tillotson.

One who, or that which, awakens.

from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. -- A*wak"en*ing*ly, adv.

An awakening. [R.]

To keep watch over; to keep awake. [Obs.] Gower.

Tired out with excessive waking or watching. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A northern gull (Rissa tridactyla), inhabiting the coasts of Europe and America. It is white, with black tips to the wings, and has but three toes.

See Lich wake, under Lich.

To awake again.

To wake again.

On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.