Astray. "They went astray." Astrayed, wandered or were scattered, and of course soon became estranged from each other. Farmers all know what it is for cattle to stray from home; and many parents have felt the keen pangs of sorrow when their sons strayed from the paths of virtue. In that condition they are astray-ed.
"This prest was drank and goth astrayede."
"Achab to the bottle went.
When Benedad for all his shelde
Him slough, so that upon the felde
His people goth aboute astraie."
Gower.
Awake. "He is awake." "Samson awaked out of his sleep." "That I may awake him out of sleep." "It is high time to awake." "As a man that is wakened out of sleep." The Irish hold a wake—they do not sleep the night after the loss of friends.
Asleep.
"When that pyte, which longe on sleep doth tary
Hath set the fyne of al my heuynesse."
Chaucer, La belle dame, p. 1. c. 1.
"Ful sound on sleep did caucht thare rest be kind."
Douglas, b. 9, p. 283.