awaitlt (awat)

[ The lyoun sit in his await alway To slen the innocent, if that he may. Chaucer, Friar's Tale, 1. 359. Themselves they set There in await with thicke woods overgrowne. Spenser, F. Q., III. v. 17. IMG:content-1464.png:[blocks in formation] Yef he be a prive a wait our yhid, and reioyseth hym to rauy he by wyles, thou shalt seyne him lyke to the fox whelpes. Chaucer , Boëthius. awake (a-wak'), v.; pret. awoke, awaked, pp. nen, cease to sleep; be roused from sleep or a state resembling sleep: as, to awaken early. A music of preparation, of awakening suspense -a music like the opening of the coronation anthem. De Quincey. 2. To come into being or action as if from sleep: as, hope awakened in his breast. II. trans. 1. To rouse from sleep or a state resembling sleep; cause to revive from a state of inaction. IMG:content-1465.png:[blocks in formation] Such a reverse in a man's life awakens a better principle than curiosity. Sterne , Sentimental Journey, p. 77. [ Awaken is chiefly used in figurative or transferred plications, awake being preferred in the sense of arousing from actual sleep.]