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attention; an alarum. Alarm bell, a bell that gives notice on danger. -- Alarm clock or watch, a clock or watch which can be so set as to ring or strike loudly at a prearranged hour, to wake from sleep, or excite attention. -- Alarm gauge, a contrivance attached to a steam boiler for showing when the pressure of ste…

Watchful; vigilant; active in vigilance.

A group children amusing themselves with pushing stones from the top [of the cliff], and watching as they plunged into the lake. Gilpin.

varying pressure of the atmosphere upon the elastic top of a metallic box (shaped like a watch) from which the air has been exhausted. An index shows the variation of pressure.

Anything, especially money, thus set apart. The Commons watched carefully over the appropriation. Macaulay.

One very vigilant; a guardian always watchful.

Extremely observant; watchful; sharp-sighted.

hing a place from a distance, whether by water (as in its original sense) or by land. Our watchmen from the towers, with longing eyes, Expect his swift arrival. Dryden.

To care for; to look after; to take charge of; to watch over.

Watchful; circumspect. [Obs.] With sharp, aviseful eye. Spenser.

To watch for; to look out for. [Obs.]

Watchful; vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.

A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).

A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a balance.

A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.

A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.

ngs a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton.

To keep watch over; to keep awake. [Obs.] Gower.

The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.

The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.