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English Dictionary: waking	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
waking adj marked by full consciousness or alertness; "worked every moment of my waking hours" Synonym(s): waking, wakeful n the state of remaining awake; "days of danger and nights of waking" Antonym(s): sleeping
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wake \Wake\, v. i. [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, v. i., uswakjan, v. t., Skr. v[be]jay to rouse, to impel. [?][?][?][?]. Cf. {Vigil}, {Wait}, v. i., {Watch}, v. i.] 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Waking \Wak"ing\, n. 1. The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake. 2. A watch; a watching. [Obs.] [bd]Bodily pain . . . standeth in prayer, in wakings, in fastings.[b8] --Chaucer. In the fourth waking of the night. --Wyclif (Matt. xiv. 25).