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▪ I. † wak, a. and n. Sc. Obs.
Also 6–7 wack, 6 vak.
[a. ON. *wakw- (Icel. vǫk-r) moist, damp = (M)Du. wak:—OTeut. *wakwo-, cogn. w. Gr. ὑγρός, L. ūvidus (:—*ugvidus) moist.]
A. adj. Moist, damp.
1513Douglas æneis iii. ix. 2 Quhen Aurora the wak nycht did arest, And chais fra hevin with hir dym skyis donk. 1528Lyndesay Dreme 388 First, to the Mone,..Quene of the see,..Off nature wak and cauld, and no thyng clere. 1533Bellenden Livy v. xxii. (S.T.S.) II. 224 Þai ar nurist with wak humouris and Caldnes. 1572Satir. Poems Reform. xxxiii. 1 Ȝe vapurs wak, and watters in the air! c1590J. Stewart Poems (S.T.S.) II. 215 And till eschew nocturnall vapor vak. 1609Skene Reg. Maj., Chalm. Air xxv. 153 b, They make the claith wak and donke. 1666Despauterii Gram. Instit., Lib. VII, E 7 b (Jam.), Madeo, to be wack or drunk. Permadeo, to be very wack. 1776Herd's Coll. Sc. Songs II. Gloss., Wak, moist, wet.
B. n. Moisture.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 76 Quhen it [the moon] is full, all thingis..that ar governyt be wak or moystnes, ar mare forssy and vigorous na quhen it is wane.
Hence ˈwakness, moisture.
c1520Nisbet N.T. Scots Luke viii. 6 Ane vthir fell on staan; and it sprang vp and dryit, for it had nocht moistour (or wacnes). 1528Lyndsay Dreme 460 Than past we vp quhare Jupiter the kyng Satt in his speir,..Complexionate with waknes and with heit. 1563Knox Ressoning betw. Abbot Crosraguell & K. (1812) Prol. ij b, The earth bringeth forth the tree, it groweth by moistour, and natural wacknes. 1595Duncan App. Etymol., Mador, humor, waknesse. 1808Jamieson, Waknes, humidity.
▪ II. wak, wakande
see weak a., vacand. |