From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Wake \Wake\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waked}or {Woke} (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Waking}.] [AS. wacan, wacian; akin to OFries. waka,
OS. wak?n, D. waken, G. wachen, OHG. wahh?n, Icel. vaka, Sw.
vaken, Dan. vaage, Goth. wakan, v. i., uswakjan, v. t., Skr.
v[=a]jay to rouse, to impel. ????. Cf. {Vigil}, {Wait}, v.
i., {Watch}, v. i.]
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1. To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
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The father waketh for the daughter. --Ecclus.
xlii. 9.
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Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps. --Milton.
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I can not think any time, waking or sleeping,
without being sensible of it. --Locke.
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2. To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
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The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse,
Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.
--Shak.
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3. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be
awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
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He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding
doxology. --G. Eliot.
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4. To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a
dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
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Gentle airs due at their hour
To fan the earth now waked. --Milton.
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Then wake, my soul, to high desires. --Keble.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Woke \Woke\, imp. & p. p.
{Wake}.
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