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Word Meanings - WAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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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.

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    One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
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    The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
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    To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
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    Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak.
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  • WATCHDOG
    A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
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    contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
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    1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
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    A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
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    Without a guardian. Marston.
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    The state of being cheery.
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    Funereal; moaning. Soothed sadly by the dirgeful wind. Coleridge.
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    Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.
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    To cheer up. Spenser.
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    To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
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