Word Meanings - FORWAKED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tired out with excessive waking or watching. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to FORWAKED)

• TIRE
  A tier, row, or rank. See Tier. In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder. Milton.
• WAKETIME
  Time during which one is awake. Mrs. Browning.
• WAKE-ROBIN
  Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint . Note: In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit.
• TIRO
  See TYRO
• WATCHET
  Pale or light blue. "Watchet mantles." Spenser. Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes Dryden.
• WATCHDOG
  A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
• WATCHHOUSE
  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.
• TIRING-HOUSE
  A tiring-room. Shak.
• WATCHWORD
  1. A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password. 2. A sentiment
• WATCH MEETING
  A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year.
• TIRONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome.
• WAKEN
  To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened. Early, Turnus wakening with the light. Dryden.
• WAKIF
  The person creating a wakf.
• TIRAILLEUR
  Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.
• WATCHFUL
  Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful
• TIRE-WOMAN
  1. A lady's maid. Fashionableness of the tire-woman's making. Locke. 2. A dresser in a theater. Simmonds.
• WATCHTOWER
  A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like.
• TIREDNESS
  The state of being tired, or weary.
• WATCHMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make and repair watches.
• TIRRIT
  A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess in Shakespeare's Henry IV., probably meaning terror.
• UNATTIRE
  To divest of attire; to undress.
• SATIRIST
  One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire. The mighty satirist, who . . . had spread through the Whig ranks. Macaulay.
• CULTIROSTRES
  A tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc.
• LATEWAKE
  See LICH
• EXTIRPATORY
  Extirpative.
• STIRPS
  Stock; race; family. Blackstone.
• RECTIROSTRAL
  Having a straight beak.
• MULTIRAMOSE
  Having many branches.
• ASTIR
  Stirring; in a state of activity or motion; out of bed.