"lich-wake" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "lich-wakes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "lich-wake (plural lich-wakes)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "source": "w"
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          "name": "Scottish English",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1871, Walter Field, Stones of the temple, or, Lessons from the fabric and furniture of the church",
          "text": "In some parts of Scotland is still kept up the custon of Lyke-wake (Lich-wake), or watching beside the dead body before its burial.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, The Journal of State Medicine",
          "text": "Funeral rites in the house (lich wakes) should be avoided out of regard for the health of the members of the family.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Arthur Morrison, The Shadows Around Us",
          "text": "The custom of the \"lich-wake,\" corresponding largely with the surviving Irish custom of waking the dead, had not then died out in Scotland, and in Monifieth was frequently practised.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The wake, or watching, held over a corpse before burial."
      ],
      "id": "en-lich-wake-en-noun-WFalOKT7",
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          "wake"
        ],
        [
          "corpse",
          "corpse"
        ],
        [
          "burial",
          "burial"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, Scotland) The wake, or watching, held over a corpse before burial."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "late-wake"
        },
        {
          "word": "lichwake"
        },
        {
          "word": "lich wake"
        },
        {
          "word": "lyke-wake"
        },
        {
          "word": "lykewake"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lich-wake"
}

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    {
      "form": "lich-wakes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "lich-wake (plural lich-wakes)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1871, Walter Field, Stones of the temple, or, Lessons from the fabric and furniture of the church",
          "text": "In some parts of Scotland is still kept up the custon of Lyke-wake (Lich-wake), or watching beside the dead body before its burial.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, The Journal of State Medicine",
          "text": "Funeral rites in the house (lich wakes) should be avoided out of regard for the health of the members of the family.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Arthur Morrison, The Shadows Around Us",
          "text": "The custom of the \"lich-wake,\" corresponding largely with the surviving Irish custom of waking the dead, had not then died out in Scotland, and in Monifieth was frequently practised.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The wake, or watching, held over a corpse before burial."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "corpse",
          "corpse"
        ],
        [
          "burial",
          "burial"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, Scotland) The wake, or watching, held over a corpse before burial."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "late-wake"
    },
    {
      "word": "lichwake"
    },
    {
      "word": "lich wake"
    },
    {
      "word": "lyke-wake"
    },
    {
      "word": "lykewake"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lich-wake"
}