waking.html - See: IN THE WAKE OF.

waking.html - v. & n.
--v.

(past woke or waked; past part. woken or waked)
1 intr. & tr. (often foll. by up) cease or cause to cease to sleep.
2 intr. & tr. (often foll. by up) become or cause to become alert, attentive, or active (needs something to wake him up).
3 intr. (archaic except as waking adj. & n.) be awake (in her waking hours; waking or sleeping).
4 tr. disturb (silence or a place) with noise; make re-echo.
5 tr. evoke (an echo).
6 intr. & tr. rise or raise from the dead.

--n.

1 a watch beside a corpse before burial; lamentation and (less often) merrymaking in connection with this.
2 (usu. in pl.) an annual holiday in (industrial) northern England.
3 hist. a a vigil commemorating the dedication of a church. b a fair or merrymaking on this occasion.

be a wake-up (often foll. by to) Austral. sl. be alert or aware. wake-robin 1 Brit. an arum, esp. the cuckoo-pint.
2 US any plant of the genus Trillium.

waker n. [OE wacan (recorded only in past woc), wacian (weak form), rel. to WATCH: sense 'vigil' perh. f. ON]

waking.html - n.
1 the track left on the water's surface by a moving ship.
2 turbulent air left behind a moving aircraft etc.

in the wake of behind, following, as a result of, in imitation of. [prob. f. MLG f. ON væk hole or opening in ice]

waking.html - adj.
1 unable to sleep.
2 (of a night etc.) passed with little or no sleep.
3 vigilant.

wakefully adv. wakefulness n.

waking.html - v.tr. &
intr. make or become awake. [ON vakna f. Gmc, rel. to WAKE(1)]

waking.html - {v.}, {informal} 1. To go busily to work. * /The house was a mess after the party, but Mother waded in and soon had it clean again./ 2. To attack. * /When Bill had heard Jim's argument, he waded in and took it apart./ * /Jack waded into the boys with his fists flying./