Wake

w5k, v.t to cease from sleep to watch (so in to be roused up, active, or vigilant. v.t. to rouse to revive to put in action —pa and pap. waked or woke. [A.S. mean. Ger. wachen to watch allied to Walt, Watch, also to wax, to grew, and to L. vigeo, to be lively, to thrive.] Wake. w5k, v. act of waking: feast of the dedication of a church, formerly kept by watchtng all night sitting up of persons with a corpse. Wake, wSk, the streak of smooth water left in the track of a ship hence fig., in the wake of,' in the train of immediately after. [From Fr. ottniche, through the Sp from L. aquaginm a watercourse—aqua, water, and ago, to lead