Definitions for: Waking

[n] the state of remaining awake; "days of danger and nights of waking"

Webster (1913) Definition: 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).

Antonyms: sleeping

See Also: consciousness, wakefulness