[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wake \wake\, v. i. imp.  p. p. wakedor woke ?; p. pr. 
   vb. n. waking. as. wacan, wacian; akin to ofries. waka,
   os. wak?n, d. waken, g. wachen, ohg. wahh?n, icel. vaka, sw.
   vaken, dan. vaage, goth. wakan, v. i., uswakjan, v. t., skr.
   v=ajay to rouse, to impel. ????. cf. vigil, wait, v.
   i., watch, v. i.
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   1. to be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
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            the father waketh for the daughter.   --ecclus.
                                                  xlii. 9.
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            though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps. --milton.
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            i can not think any time, waking or sleeping,
            without being sensible of it.         --locke.
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   2. to sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
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            the king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse,
            keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.
                                                  --shak.
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   3. to be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be
      awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
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            he infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding
            doxology.                             --g. eliot.
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   4. to be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a
      dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
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            gentle airs due at their hour
            to fan the earth now waked.           --milton.
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            then wake, my soul, to high desires.  --keble.
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see also:
waked woke waking vigil wait watch 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

waking \wak"ing\, n.
   1. the act of waking, or the state or period of being awake.
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   2. a watch; a watching. obs. "bodily pain . . . standeth in
      prayer, in wakings, in fastings." --chaucer.
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            in the fourth waking of the night.    --wyclif
                                                  matt. xiv.
                                                  25.
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[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

waking
     adj : marked by full consciousness or alertness; "worked every
           moment of my waking hours" syn: wakinga
     n : the state of remaining awake; "days of danger and nights of
         waking" ant: sleeping
see also:
wakinga sleeping 

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