Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To remain watchful or sleepless longer than; outwatch.

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  • True-love amid the apple-blossoms, lovers who outwake the nightingales of April, the touch of hands and lips, and the clinging of flower-soft limbs together; and all this amid the gay, musical, perfumed landscape of the Spring.

    More Trivia Logan Pearsall Smith 1907

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