waken (wakn)

wakenen, Dan. vaagne = Goth. ga - waknan , So that he big an to wakne. Havelok (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2164. 'Tis sweet in the green spring To gaze upon the wakening fields around. IMG:content-2011.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2012.png:[blocks in formation] wake2 (wak), n. Sc. wak, moist, watery, moist; In the wake of the ship (as 'tis call'd), or the smoothne which the ship's pa ing has made on the sea. Dampier , Voyages (an. 1699). ( Richardson .) Venus now wakes, and wakens love. Milton, Comus, 1. 124. They introduce Their sacred song, and waken raptures high. Milton , P. L., iii. 369. wakent (wa'kn), a . [Also dial. wacken ; waken , wacen (=Icel. vakinn = Sw. vaken =Dan. vaagen ), pp. of * wacan , wake: see wake1 .] Awake; not sleeping. But that grief keeps me waken , I should sleep. Marlowe. ( Imp . Dict .) wakener (wak'ner), n. [ Sound and safely may he sleep, Sweetly blythe his waukening be! Burns , Jockey's ta'en the Parting Ki . Wakening of a proce , in Scots law , the reviving of a proce in which, after calling a summons, no judicial Twice or thrice a water-cart went along by the Pyncheon-house, leaving a broad wake of moistened earth. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, xi. Thence we may go on, in the wake of so many travellers and conquerors, to those lands beyond the sea. E. A. Freeman , Venice, p. 294. being thus said to fall asleep. wake-pintlet (wak'pin"tl), n. An old name of the wake-robin. wake-playł (wak'plā), n. [ Ne how that liche-wake was yholde Al thilke night, ne how the Grekes pleye The wake - pleyes , ne kepe I nat to seye. Chaucer , Knight's Tale, 1. 2102. [ wakel +-er1.] 1. One A torpedo could be sent so closely in the wake of an- other as to take instant advantage of the opening made in the netting. Daily Telegraph , Sept. 25, 1886. (Encyc. Dict.) who wakes or rouses from sleep. waker1 (wā'kėr), n. 2. One who watches; a watcher.-3. One who attends a wake. I'll have such men, like Irish wakers , hired To sing old "Habeas Corpus." Moore , Corruption. waker2t, a . [ ME.wakyr , wakeful, wacor = Icel. vakr = Sw. wacker , wakeful, watchful.] Watchful; vigilant. Waker howndes been profitable. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 32. The waker goos, the cukkow ever unkynde. Chaucer , Parliament of Fowls, 1. 358. In every plume that on her [a monster's] body sticks As many waker eyes lurk underneath, So many mouths to speak, and listening ears. Walchia (wal'ki-ä), n. A generic name given by Sternberg (in 1825) to a fo il plant very abundant in, and characteristic of, the Permian series. This plant belongs to the Coniferæ , and has a close resemblance in its general appearance to the Arau- carieæ ; but, since its organs of fructification are unknown, its position has not as yet been exactly determined. It is in certain respects allied to Brachyphyllum and Pagio- phyllum , conifers found in the Tria ic and Jura ic. Schenk (1884) makes a separate division (the Walchieæ ) of certain conifers, in which he includes the genera Wal- chia , Ullmannia , and Pagiophyllum of Heer ( Pachyphyl- lum of Saporta). Ullmannia is also a characteristic plant of the Permian, being found in numerous localities in the Kupferschiefer; while Pagiophyllum occurs in the Trias of the United States, in various places in Europe in the Tria ic and Jura ic, and in India in the Gondwana series. walchowite (wal'kō-īt), n. [ -ite2 .] A yellow translucent mineral resin, occurring in the brown coal of Walchow in Moravia; retinite. waldt, n. A Middle English form of wold1 . waldemar (wol'de-mär), n. A variety of vel- Be wer, tharefor, with walkryfe Ee, And mend, geue ony myster be. Lauder, Dewtie of Kyngis (E. E. T. S.), 1. 489. veteen, or cotton velvet, apparently a superior Wail thro' the dreary midnight hour Till waukrife morn! Burns , On Capt. Matthew Henderson. wake-robin (wak'robin), n. 1. In Great Brit- ain, the cuckoo- pint, Arum ma- culatum . The name is extend- ed also to the whole genus.- 2. In the United States, a plant of the genus Trilli- um ; birth-root, or three-leaved nightshade. - Virgin i an wake- robin, the arrow- arum, Peltandra un- dulata . See tuck a- hoe, 1.-West In- dian wake-robin, a plant of either of the genera Anthu- rium and Philoden- IMG:content-2013.jpg:[ocr errors] IMG:content-2014.jpg:[ocr errors] IMG:content-2015.png:[blocks in formation] Waldenberg's apparatus. An apparatus con- structed on the principle of a gasometer, used for compre ing or rarefying air which is in- haled, or into which the patient exhales. Waldenses (wol-den'sēz), n. pl. [Also Val- denses. Cf. F. Vaudois = Sp. Pg. It. Valdense ; Valdenses , pl., so called from Peter Valdo or Waldo of Lyons, the founder of the sect.] The Waldensians. Waldensian (wol-den's ian), a. and n. [Also Valdensian (see def.); The important point of the origin of the Waldensian Church is clearly established, being referred to Waldo, in opposition to the fanciful theories which tried to carry it back through mysterious paths to the primitive Christian times. The Academy , No. 888, p. 320. II. n. A member of a reforming body of Christians, followers of Peter Waldo (Valdo) of Lyons, formed about 1170. Its chief seats were in the alpine valleys of Piedmont, Dauphiné, and Provence (hence the French name Vaudois des Alpes , or Vaudois ). The Waldenses joined the Reformation movement, and were often severely persecuted, especially in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Waldensian church in Italy waldflute (wold'flöt), n. [ waldflöte , wald , forest, + flöte , flute.] flöte , flute.] In organ - building , a flute- stop giving giving waldgrave (wold grav), n. [ waldgraf , graf , grave: see wold and graves, graf .] In the old German empire, a head forest-ranger; also, a German title of no- bility. Waldheimia (wold-him i-a), n. [NL., named after Fischer von Waldheim , a German natu- ralist.] 1. A genus of hymenopterous insects. Brullé , 1846.-2. A genus of brachiopods, such IMG:content-2016.png:[ocr errors][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][merged small][subsumed][subsumed] 3. A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position; a wale-piece.- 4t. A wale-knot. Holland . -5. A ridge in cloth, formed by a thread or a group of threads; hence, a stripe or strain implying quality. Thou art rougher far By my troth, exceeding good cloth; a good wale 't 'as. Middle ton, Michael mas Term, ii. 3. 6. A streak or stripe produced on the skin by the stroke of a rod or whip. The wales or marks of stripes and lashes were all red. Holland , tr. of Plutarch, p. 547. Hall i well . 7. A tumor, or large swelling. [Prov. Eng.] - Wales of a ship. See bend1 , 3 (d). walel (wal), v. t.; pret. and pp. waled , ppr. wal- ing . [Also improp. whale ; wale , n.] 1. To mark with wales or stripes. A wycked wound hath me walled , And traveyld me from topp to too. IMG:content-2017.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2018.png:[graphic] "Where schulde I wale the?" quoth Gauan; "where is thy place? I wot neuer where thou wonyes." A noble man for the nonest [is] namet Pelleus. That worthy hade a wyfe wal it hym-seluon, The truthe for to telle, Tetyda she heght. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 105. Of choys men syne, wal it by cut (lot), thai tuke A gret numbyr, and hyd in bylgis dern. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), Glo ., p. 208. [(G. Douglas, i. 72.) Burns, Cottar's Saturday Night. as many extinct species, and forming the type of the family Waldheimiidæ. Also called Magel- lania. See also cut under deltidium . King , 1849. wale2 (wal), a. [ wale ; from the same Waldheimiidæ (wold-hi-mi'i-dē), n. pl . [NL., Waldheimia + -idæ .] A family of arthropo- matous brachiopods, closely related to Terebra- tulidæ , and by most naturalists combined with that family, but characterized by the elongated brachial appendages. waldhorn (wold'hôrn), n. [G., wald , forest, + horn , horn: see wold1 and horn .] The old hunting-horn, without valves, from which the modern orchestral or French horn was derived; the corno di caccia. See horn. source as wale2 , n.] Choice; good; excellent. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] Myche woo hade the wegh for the wale knight. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1288. wale3t, n. An obsolete form of weal . wale-knott (wal'not), n. Same as wall - knot . wale-piece (wāl'pēs), n. [ walel + piece .] A horizontal timber of a quay or jetty, bolted to the vertical timbers or secured by anchor-rods to the masonry to receive the impact of ve els coming or lying alongside. E. H. Knight. Waler Waler (wa'ler), n. [ For sale, a brown Waler gelding. Madras Mail , June 25, 1873. ( Yule and Burnell.) My Waler was cautiously feeling his way over the loose shale. Rudyard Kipling , Phantom Rickshaw.