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Vigils or Watchings
Vigil Vig"il, n. [OE. vigile, L. vigilia, from vigil awake, watchful, probably akin to E. wake: cf. F. vigile. See Wake, v. i., and cf. Reveille, Surveillance, Vedette, Vegetable, Vigor.] 1. Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch. ``Worn out by the labors and vigils of many months.' --Macaulay. Nothing wears out a fine face like the vigils of the card table and those cutting passions which attend them. --Addison. 2. Hence, devotional watching; waking for prayer, or other religious exercises. So they in heaven their odes and vigils tuned. --Milton. Be sober and keep vigil, The Judge is at the gate. --Neale (Rhythm of St. Bernard). 3. (Eccl.) (a) Originally, the watch kept on the night before a feast. (b) Later, the day and the night preceding a feast. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors, And say, ``To-morrow is St. Crispian.' --Shak. (c) A religious service performed in the evening preceding a feast. Vigils, or Watchings, of flowers (Bot.), a peculiar faculty belonging to the flowers of certain plants of opening and closing their petals as certain hours of the day. [R.]

Meaning of Igils from wikipedia

- The igil (Tuvan: игил) is a two-stringed Tuvan musical instrument, pla**** by bowing the strings. (It is called "ikili" in Western Mongolia.) The neck and...
- known as ikil (Mongolian: икил—not to be confused with the similar Tuvan igil)—while in eastern Mongolia it is known as s**** (Mongolian: Шоор). The instrument...
- Otyken's music is performed with traditional instruments such as the komuz, igil, jaw harp, rattle, tambourine, and leather drum, although modern instruments...
- The word also appears in the Old English word for "hedgehog", which is igil (meaning "snake eater"), and perhaps in the egi- of Old High German egidehsa...
- bowed instruments are the rebec, hardingfele, nyckelharpa, kokyū, erhu, igil, sarangi, morin khuur, and K'ni. The hurdy-gurdy is bowed by a wheel. Rarely...
- Daxophone Esraj Fiðla Gadulka Ghaychak Giga Gudok Gue Gusle Haegeum Huqin Igil Imzad Jouhikko Kingri Kokyū Kobyz Masenqo Morin khuur Musical saw Neola Nyckelharpa...
- Icelandic fiddle (fiðla) chordophones 321.321-6 Iceland stringed instruments Igil chordophones 321.321 Tuva stringed instruments Irish bouzouki chordophones...
- Kyzyl, Tuva, Russia Genres Tuvan throat singing Instruments Doshpuluur, Igil, Chanzy Years active 1980 - 2013 Labels Warner Bros. Records Website ondar...
- classification chordophone Hornbostel–Sachs classification 321.311 (spike bowed lute) Related instruments gusle (Balkans) igil (Tuvan) krar (Horn of Africa)...
- Dombra Temuulen "Temka" Naranbaatar of the HU playing the tovshuur Tsuur Igil Doshpuluur Morin khuur Music of Tuva Music of Mongolia List of Mongolian...