await (awat)

[ Your ill-meaning politician lords, Under pretence of bridal friends and guests, Appointed to await me thirty spies. Milton , S. A., 1. 1196. 2. To wait for; look for or expect. Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night. Milton, P. L., iv. 550. Hawthorne All through life I have awaited the fulfilment of a prophecy. 3. To be in store for; attend; 1; be ready for: as, a glorious reward awaits the good. Let all good things await IMG:content-1463.png:[blocks in formation] Thou dost awake something that troubles me, And says, I lov'd thee once. Beau, and Fl., Maid's Tragedy, v. 4. =Syn. 2. To wake, excite, stir up, call forth, stimulate, spur (up). awake (a-wak'), a. [Formerly also awaken , awake , awaken , awacen , pp.: see the verb.] Roused from sleep; not sleeping; in a state of vigilance or action. It is my love that keeps mine eye awake . Shak ., Sonnets, lxi.