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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Waking \Wak"ing\, noun
1. The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake.
2. A watch; a watching. [Obs.] ''Bodily pain . . . standeth in prayer, in wakings, in fastings.'' --Chaucer.
In the fourth waking of the night. --Wyclif (Matt. xiv. 25).
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wake \Wake\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Waked}or {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, verb (used without an object), uswakjan, verb (used with an object), Skr. v[=a]jay to rouse, to impel. ????. Cf. {Vigil}, {Wait}, v. i., {Watch}, verb (used without an object)]
1. To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
The father waketh for the daughter. --Ecclus. xlii. 9.
Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps. --Milton.
I can not think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it. --Locke.
2. To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels. --Shak.
3. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding doxology. --G. Eliot.
4. To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
Gentle airs due at their hour To fan the earth now waked. --Milton.
Then wake, my soul, to high desires. --Keble.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
waking
adjective: marked by full consciousness or alertness; "worked every moment of my waking hours" [syn: {waking(a)}]
noun: the state of remaining awake; "days of danger and nights of waking" [ant: {sleeping}]
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