Definition of watch

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Watch (v. i.) To remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever..

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Lookout :: Lookout (n.) A person engaged in watching.
Countersign :: Countersign (a.) A private signal, word, or phrase, which must be given in order to pass a sentry; a watchword..
Tuition :: Tuition (n.) Superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward; guardianship.
Pawn :: Pawn (v. t.) To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch..
Wake :: Wake (v. t.) To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body..
Bellman :: Bellman (n.) A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours..
Lockup :: Lockup (n.) A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.
Deathwatch :: Deathwatch (n.) A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidae, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick..
Espionage :: Espionage (n.) The practice or employment of spies; the practice of watching the words and conduct of others, to make discoveries, as spies or secret emissaries; secret watching..
Outlook :: Outlook (n.) One who looks out; also, the place from which one looks out; a watchower..
Jigger :: "Jigger (n. & v.) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle..
Eye :: Eye (n.) Observation; oversight; watch; inspection; notice; attention; regard.
Tick :: Tick (v. i.) To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat..
Timekeeper :: Timekeeper (n.) A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece..
Train :: Train (v.) The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.
Follow :: Follow (v. t.) To watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to keep up with; to understand the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course of thought or argument..
Nayword :: Nayword (n.) A byword; a proverb; also, a watchword..
Late :: Late (v.) Continuing or doing until an advanced hour of the night; as, late revels; a late watcher..
Bridge :: Bridge (n.) Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed..
Herrnhuter :: Herrnhuter (n.) One of the Moravians; -- so called from the settlement of Herrnhut (the Lord's watch) made, about 1722, by the Moravians at the invitation of Nicholas Lewis, count of Zinzendorf, upon his estate in the circle of Bautzen..
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