Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.]
   1. To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.

            The father waketh for the daughter.   --Ecclus.
                                                  xlii. 9.

            Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps. --Milton.

            I can not think any time, waking or sleeping,
            without being sensible of it.         --Locke.

   2. To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.

            The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse,
            Keeps wassail, and the swaggering upspring reels.
                                                  --Shak.

   3. To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be
      awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.

            He infallibly woke up at the sound of the concluding
            doxology.                             --G. Eliot.

   4. To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a
      dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.

            Gentle airs due at their hour To fan the earth now
            waked.                                --Milton.

            Then wake, my soul, to high desires.  --Keble.

Waking \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).

Source : WordNet®

waking
     adj : marked by full consciousness or alertness; "worked every
           moment of my waking hours" [syn: {waking(a)}]
     n : the state of remaining awake; "days of danger and nights of
         waking" [ant: {sleeping}]