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Show WA To find the other forth; by vent'ring both Shake[p. Merchant of Venice I oft found both 4. Guard; vigilant keep i 5. To be cautioufly obfervant Still, when fhe flept, he kept both fwat(\'b an Spenfer ward Watch over thyfelf, counfel thyfelf, judge thyfel Taylor impartially 6. To be infidioufly attentive Ufe careful woatch, chufe trufty centinels Shakefpeare's Richard I1Y Love can find entrance not only into an ope heart, but alfo into a heart well fortified, if wwatc Bacon be not well kept Watches, no doubt, with greedy hope to fin It i His wifh and beft advantage us afunder Hopelefs to circumvent us join'd To WATCH. V. a Flaming minifters ewarch and tend their charge Milton 2. To obferve in ambufh Saul fent mefiengers unto David's houfe t 1 Sains Xix. 11 quatch him, and to {lay him He is bold, ‘and lies near the top of the water aatching the motion of any water-rat that fwim betwixt him and the tky Walton Spenfer . And wakeful watches, ever to abide Such ftand in narrow lanes And beat our wwatch, and rob our pafiengers. Shak The ports he did fhut up, or at leaft kept quatch on them, that none fhould pafs to or fro tha blind to lead the blind, and to put him that canno South's Sermons fee to the office of a watch 6. Place where a guard is fet He upbraids Iago, that he made hi Brave-me upon the watche. - Shakefpeare's Otbello 7. Poft or office of a watchman Shake[peare's Macbeth 8. A period of the night Your fair daughter At this odd, even, and dull watch o' th' night Is now tranfported with a gondelie "To the grofs clafps of a lafcivious Moor Shake[peare's Otkello A1l night he will purfue; but his approac Darknefs defends between, till morning watzch Nilton The latter watch of wafting night And fefting ftars, to kindly fleep invite Dryden's Zrneid 9. A potket clock; a fmall clock move by a {pring A aatch, befides the hour of the day, gives th _day of the month, and the place of the funin th Hale zodiack On the theatre we 21e confined to time; an ‘though we talk not by the hour-glafs, yet th qwatch often drawn out of the pocket, warns th Dryden ators that their audience is weary That Chloe may be ferv'd in {tate "The hours muft at her toilet wait Whilft all the reafoning fools belo Wonder their watches go 1o flow Prior To WaTcH v. [pacian, Saxon. 1. Not to fleep; to wake flumber, as fore difeafe breaketh fleep Ecclys. xxxi. 2 Milton Sleep, lift'ning to thee, will watch 2. To keep guard I will zuazch over them for evil, and not for'good Jers xliv In ovr awarching we have qvatched for a natio that could not fave us Lam. 1Ve 17 He gave fignal to the minifter that warch'd Milton 3. To look with expe&ation My foul waiteth for the Lord, more than the that watch for the morning Plalt cxxxs 6 4. To be attentive ; to be vigilant Warch-ghow in all things, enduse afili®tions 3 Milton To tend Paris watched the flocks in the groves of Ida Broome 4. To obferve, in ordet to dete or pre 2 Tims 1Yy gal fidelity, and fo to peg Sulriefs over their manners 1 WAa'TCHER. 2. /. [from watch. 1. One who fits up; one who does not g to {leep Get on your night-gown, left occafion call us Shakefp. Macbethb And thew us to be watchers z. Diligent overlooker or obferver Love hath chas'd fleep from my enthralled eyes Shakefpeare rOW It is obferved by thofe that are more attentiv More awatchers of the works of nature Wa'tcHET. adj. [pzced, Saxon Skinner. Blue; pale blue d_f}fbw‘}f‘b Prej udices are cured by conftant -jealo:ft watchfuingf By a folicitous watehfulnefs abou one' K, our, inftead of being mended 5 itwil be Conf® tbehas rained Locke 2. Inability to {leep ffl'atc.bfulmfs., fometimes called a com vi i often precedes too great fleepinefs. Arbyrh,p Dz'e,‘t Wa'TCHHOUSE. . /. {watch and bouf, Place where'the watch is fet Where fatues breath'd the works of Phigiz hands A )voodex; pump or lonely warchbiufe fands, Gap WA‘ TCHING # / [from wateh.]. Ina bility to fleep CR weak The bullet, not having been extradted, occafion' ed/great pain and watchings Wileman's Surge;y Wa'TcawarER. 2 /. [awatch and zafer. One whofe trade is to make watches, o pocket clocks vent Smithing comprehends all trade forge or file, from the anchor(mitt maker5 they all ufing the' fame ‘tools feveral fizes Wa'tcuman which u the wwaschthough o Moz #. [ [awatch and ma Guard ; fentinel ; one fet to keep ward On the top of all I-do efp The avatchman waiting, tydings glad to hear Fairy Queen Turn him into London ftreets, thatthe evarch Bacan me#n might carry him before a juitice Drunkennefs calls off 'the watchmen from thei towers; and then all evils that proceed. from loofe heart, an untied tongue, and a diffolute fpirit ‘Whom *midft the Alps do hanging throats furprife Who ftares in Germany at wazcher eyes Dryden's Fuvenal WATCHFUL. adj. [watch and full.] Vigilant; attentive; cautious ; nicely ob{fervant. It has of before "the thing t be regulated, and again? before th thing to be avoided Call home our exil'd friends we put upon its account Taylor Ourawatchmen from the tow'rs, withlonging eyes Dryden's Spanifp Frior Exped his fwift arrival The melancholy tone of a watchman at mid night Sawift Wa'TCHTOWER. 7. /. [avatch and fower. for the fake of profpeét In the day-time fhe fitteth in a watchrower, an Bacon flieth moft by night Up unto the watchtetver get Dont And fee all things defpoil'd of fallacies To hear the lark begin his flight die Rew, iil Nodding a while, and watchfu/ of his blow He fell'; and falling crufh'd th' ungrateful nymp below Dryden Readers fhould not lay by that caution whic becomes a fincere purfuit of truth, and fhould mak them always watchful againft whatever might conceal or mifreprefent it Locke tower, convey to the foul the imprefiions of exter Wa'TCHWORD. 7. /. [watch and awrd. The word given to the fentinels to kuo require of them an exact obfervance of the dutie All have their ears upright, waiting when th Be avatchful of their behaviour, and as ready t of Chriftianity, as of the duties of their fervants. Wa'rcaruiLy. adv. [from swatchful. Vigilantly ; cautioufly ; attentively with cautious obfervation; heedfully If this experiment were very wwatchfully tried i veffels of feveral fizes, fome fuch things may b difcovered Bayle WA TCHFULNESS. 7. /i [from aarchful. 1. Vigilance ; heed; fufpicious attention cautious regard ; diligent obfervation The experience of our own frailties, and the con fideration of the watchfulnefs of the tempter, difcourage us Hammond Love, fantaftick pow'r! that is afrai To ftir abroad till warchfulnefs be laid Undaunted then o'er cliffs and valleys ftrays And leads his vot'ries fafe through pathlefs ways Prior Hulbands are counfelled nat to truft too muc T'ower on which a fentinel was place That fled the fnares of watchfu! tyranny Shakefpeare's Macbeth Be awatchful, and ftrengthen the things ready t Law 1 have two nights warch''d with you; but ca perceive no truth in your report. Shakefp. Macbeth Watching care will not let a ma They under rocks their foo In jointed armour watch And made them wvazchers of mine own heart's for As I did ftand my watch upon the hill I look'd toward Birnam, and anon methough "The wood began to move Milton 1. To guard ; to have in keep Before her gate high God did fieat ordain Bacon was fufpeéted When' by God's mercy in Chrift, apprehende by faith, our hearts fhall be purified, then to fe zvatch and ward over them, and to keep them wit Perkins all diligence The towers of heaven are fil' With armed watch, that render all accef Miiton's Paradife Lofp Impregnable An abfurdity our Saviour accounted it for th to their wives owning the do Erine of unlip conj over ourik paffions, that theyey m e, interpofe when we are called to pafsa jy‘;d gge';etve He¢ fomewhere nigh at han Hie thee to thy charge 5. Watchmen ; men fet to guard ufed in a colledtive fenfe A And finging ftartle the dull nigh From his watchtewer in the fkies Milien Till the dappled dawn doth rife ‘The fenfes in the head, as festinels ina awatch Ray nal objeéts their friends arif al fhoul the tha come {hal avatchevor Sperfer into rebellion Matte midnight a chime th hear hav W Shallow.= ~That we have, fir John: our watchuwordy hem Shakefpeare boys A wvatchword every minute of the night 805.‘1 about the walls, to teftify their vigilancys Sandys WA'TER . / [waeter, Dutch; poewef Saxon. r r 1. Sir Ifaac Newton defines w l t J v pure, - to be a very fluid falt 3 a te ta o u v f al o i v an i ll ;a }l ot fm ll fm o i n feems to c orous, {pherical particles, of €qid. = : ll V" gr i i e f u e o m } s e gme o al a e r f o n e as Dr. C ‘ ; 1 1 there are be pervio manner and ;a.nged in fuc |