| • | The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army. |
| • | To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep. |
| • | To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel. |
| • | To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up. |
| • | To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active. |
| • | To rouse from sleep; to awake. |
| • | To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. |
| • | To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive. |
| • | To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body. |
| • | The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake. |
| • | The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil. |
| • | 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. |
| • | The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish. |
