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A watchman; an officer of customs or police. [India]

chronometer. See under Box. -- Pocket chronometer, a chronometer in the form of a large watch. -- To rate a chronometer. See Rate, v. t.

Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness. With silent circumspection, unespied. Milton.

Looking around everi way; cautious; careful of consequences; watchful of danger. "Circumspective eyes." Pope.

See under Council. -- City court, The municipal court of a city. [U. S.] -- City ward, a watchman, or the collective watchmen, of a city. [Obs.] Fairfax.

cted as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.

The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch. Knight. Ball cock. See under Ball. -- Chaparral cock. See under Chaparral. -- Cock and bull story, an extravagant, boastful story; a canard. -- Cock of the plains (Zoöl.) See Sage cock. -- Cock of the rock (Zoöl.), a South Amer…

Any band or body of warriors. With him the cohort bright Of watchful cherubim. Milton.

metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill.

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

One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker.

A countersign; a watchword.

by sea or land; an escort, for protection or guidance. When every morn my bosom glowed To watch the convoy on the road. Emerson.

Webster. Corpse candle. (a) A thick candle formerly used at a lich wake, or the customary watching with a corpse on the night before its interment. (b) A luminous appearance, resembling the flame of a candle, sometimes seen in churchyards and other damp places, superstitiously regarded as portending death. -- Corpse g…

is life. A d'amond gone, cost me two thousand ducats. Shak. Though it cost me ten nights' watchings. Shak.

A shed, shelter, or inclosure for small domestic animals, as for sheep or doves. Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, In hurdled cotes. Milton.

A private signal, word, or phrase, which must be given in order to pass a sentry; a watchword.

To wait or watch for; to be on guard against. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To undulate or ripple. Cf. Crisp, v. t. To watch the crisping ripples on the beach. Tennuson.

The glass over the dial of a watch case.