Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume AB1. To watch. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. To wait (on or upon). [Obs.] 3. To wait; to stay in waiting. Darwin. A·wait", n. A waiting for; ambush; watch; watching; heed. [Obs.] Chaucer. A·wake" (?), v. t. [imp. Awoke (?), Awaked (?); p. p. Awaked; (Obs.) Awaken, Awoken; p. pr. & vb. n. Awaking. The form Awoke is sometimes used as a p. p.] [AS. āwęcnan, v. i. (imp. awōc), and āwacian, v. i. (imp. awacode). See Awaken, Wake.] 1. To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken. Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish. 2. To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties. I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. It way awake my bounty further. No sunny gleam awakes the trees. A·wake" (?), v. i. To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death. |