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The leaves of Sarace. See Trumpets.

A ratchet-shaped scape wheel, which in some watches is acted upon by the axis of the balance wheel proper (in those watches called a balance).

holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.

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

amp; moist; humid; wet. Now that the fields are dank and ways are mire. Milton. Cheerless watches on the cold, dank ground. Trench.

ainter sound; -- called also deathtick. She is always seeing apparitions and hearing deathwatches. Addison. I did not hear the dog howl, mother, or the deathwatch beat. Tennyson.

The art of constructing instruments for making the hours, as clocks, watches, and dials.

A maker or vender of clocks and watches; one skilled in horology.

A maker of clocks, watches, or dials.

art of constructing instruments for measuring and indicating portions of time, as clocks, watches, dials, etc.

beat; to mark or tell off. [Obs.] My thoughts are minutes, and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes. Shak.

One that lurches or lies in wait; one who watches to pilfer, or to betray or entrap; a poacher.

One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom.

One who watches or keeps awake all night.

antern. -- Pinion wire, wire fluted longitudinally, for making the pinions of clocks and watches. It is formed by being drawn through holes of the shape required for the leaves or teeth of the pinions.

e to work or operate on account of the exhaustion of the motive power; -- said of clocks, watches, etc. (b) To decline in condition; as, to run down in health. -- To run down a coast, to sail along it. -- To run for an office, to stand as a candidate for an office. -- To run in or into. (a) To enter; to step in. (b)…

One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry. The sentinels who paced the ramparts. Macaulay.

One who watches over another; an overseer; a spy; a supervisor.

A customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties. Swift.

tem,the clan deity, the beast or bird who in some supernatural way attends tothe clan and watches over it. Bagehot.