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Locket :: Locket (n.) A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain..

Stem-winding :: Stem-winder (n.) A stem-winding watch.

Watch :: Watch (n.) An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch..

Brequet Chain :: Brequet chain () A watch-guard.

Jewel :: "Jewel (v. t.) To dress, adorn, deck, or supply with jewels, as a dress, a sword hilt, or a watch; to bespangle, as with jewels..

Pivot :: Pivot (n.) The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch..

Work :: Work (n.) The moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of a watch..

Guard :: Guard (v. i.) To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety; as, careful persons guard against mistakes..

Chatelaine :: Chatelaine (n.) An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain..

Repeating :: Repeating (a.) Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch..

Dextrally :: Dextrally (adv.) Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally..

Watchword :: Watchword (n.) A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password..

Con :: Con (v. t.) To conduct, or superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer..

Ward-corn :: Ward-corn (n.) The duty of keeping watch and ward (see the Note under Watch, n., 1) with a horn to be blown upon any occasion of surprise..

Invigilancy :: Invigilancy (n.) Want of vigilance; neglect of watching; carelessness.

Watch :: Watch (v. i.) A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring..

Left-handed :: Left-handed (a.) Having a direction contrary to that of the hands of a watch when seen in front; -- said of a twist, a rotary motion, etc., looked at from a given direction..

Ranger :: Ranger (n.) The keeper of a public park or forest; formerly, a sworn officer of a forest, appointed by the king's letters patent, whose business was to walk through the forest, recover beasts that had strayed beyond its limits, watch the deer, present trespasses to the next court held for the forest, etc..

Argus-eyed :: Argus-eyed (a.) Extremely observant; watchful; sharp-sighted.

Password :: Password (n.) A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign.

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