\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).