WAKEFUL, adjective 1. Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep. Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright-- 2. Watchful; vigilant.
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Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
WAKEFUL, adjective 1. Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep. Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright-- 2. Watchful; vigilant.
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