Obs. exc. dial. [? Aphetic var. of AWAKE.] Not sleeping, awake. (Only predicative.)
1414. Brampton, Penit. Ps. (Percy Soc.), 16. Er ryghtwysnesse be fully wake.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., June, 87. Well couth he … tell vs mery tales, to keepe vs wake.
1745. W. Thompson, Sickness, III. 295 [IV. 288]. What guilt is mine, that alone am wake, Ev’n tho’ my eyes are seal’d, am wake alone?
