AWAIT, AWAITING
NOUNS
► TARRIANCE awaiting, waiting; abiding in expectation → 1561 obs.
VERBS
► KEEP to await a coming event or person, to watch for, to wait for → 1000 obs.
► HANG IN THE WIND to await events, to subsist on uncertainty → 19C Eng. dial.
► PRESTOLATE to await, to wait for → 1653 obs.
► SWEAT ON to await anxiously → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
Lexicophilia 