Lexicographical Neighbors of Lichwake
Literary usage of Lichwake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Old English Language: Compiled from Writings of the XII by Francis Henry Stratmann (1878)
"(niht)pacn, O.lccl. vaka, wake, vigilia, А. в. 314; o. AN 1590; сотр. lichwake.
pakeman ORM. ..."
2. Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere Text) by Geoffrey Chaucer (1896)
"... lichwake, the wake or watch held over a corpse, A 2958. lye, n. lie; withouten
any lye, truly, A 3015, G 599, 1430. lyk, like, A 261. lylie, lily, ..."
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