Wai"wode (?), n. See Waywode.
Wake (?), n. [Originally, an open space of water s&?;rrounded by ice,
and then, the passage cut through ice for a vessel, probably of Scand.
origin; cf. Icel. vök a hole, opening in ice, Sw. vak, Dan. vaage,
perhaps akin to E. humid.] The track left by a vessel in the water; by
extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions.
De Quincey.
Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty
wake of his chariot wheels.
Thackeray.
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. vjay to rouse, to impel.
&?;&?;&?;&?;. Cf. Vigil, Wait, v. i., Watch, v. i.]