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ˈlyke-wake, ˈlykewake|ˈlaɪkweɪk|
Also 4, 9 liche-wake, 6, 9 lyk(e)wa(i)ke, 6–7 like-, lyke-walk, 8–9 lake-wake, 9 lychwake. Cf. late-wake.
[f. lyke, lich + wake n.]
The watch kept at night over a dead body.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 2100 Ne how that lych wake was yholde Al thilke nyght,..kepe I nat to seye. 1513Douglas æneis x. ix. 31 Quham that he etlis for to send from thens, To Pallas likewalkis. 1558Richmond Wills (Surtees 1853) 127 Ther shall be no yong folkes at my lyke⁓waike. 1623in Pitcairn Crim. Trials III. 549 At quhose lyke-walk..the ox foirsaid was slane and eittin. a1775Fair Mary of Wallington xix. in Child Ballads II. 311/2 Your daughter..bids you come to her sickening, or her merry lake-wake. 1832Carlyle Misc. (1857) III. 114 At all lykewakes, the doings and endurances of the Departed are the theme. 1878W. C. Smith Hilda (1879) 192, I heard them..moan their rugged lyke-wakes in the ancient Runic rhymes.
attrib.1805Scott Last Minstr. iv. xxvi, Our slogan is their lyke-wake dirge. 1837Sir F. Palgrave Merch. & Friar (1844) 99 The lyke-wake train was seen advancing towards them. |