(n.) The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any
track; as, the wake of an army.
(v. i.) To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
(v. i.) To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
(v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be
awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
(v. i.) To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a
dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
(v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awake.
(v. t.) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
(v. t.) To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to
reanimate; to revive.
(v. t.) To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
(n.) The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being
awake.
(n.) The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or
festive purposes; a vigil.
(n.) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of
the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the
evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church;
subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often
with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises,
attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
(n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended
with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
