2. (Scots Law) The revival of an action. Burrill.

They were too much ashamed to bring any wakening of the process against

Janet.

Sir W. Scott.

Wak"er (?), n. One who wakes.

Wake"-rob`in (?), n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in

England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum).

In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and

sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit.

Wake"time` (?), n. Time during which one is awake. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

Wak"ing, n. 1. The act of waking, or the state or period of being

awake.

2. A watch; a watching. [Obs.] "Bodily pain . . . standeth in prayer,

in wakings, in fastings." Chaucer.

In the fourth waking of the night.

Wyclif (Matt. xiv. 25).

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