Word Meanings - WATCHDOG - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
Related words: (words related to WATCHDOG)
- GUARDIAN
One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz., - GUARDIANSHIP
The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch. - WATCHET
Pale or light blue. "Watchet mantles." Spenser. Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes Dryden. - WATCHDOG
A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders. - WATCHHOUSE
1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup. - GUARDIANESS
A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl. - GUARDIANLESS
Without a guardian. Marston. - WATCHWORD
1. A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password. 2. A sentiment - GUARDER
One who guards. - WATCH MEETING
A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year. - GUARDANT
See GARDANT (more info) 1. Acting as guardian. Shak. - GUARDS
A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards." - NOTICE
1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge - WATCHFUL
Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful - GUARDHOUSE
A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up. - APPROACHABLENESS
The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility. - PROPERTY
All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge - GUARDED
Cautious; wary; circumspect; as, he was guarded in his expressions; framed or uttered with caution; as, his expressions were guarded. -- Guard"edly, adv. -- Guard"ed*ness, n. - WATCHTOWER
A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like. - WATCHMAKER
One whose occupation is to make and repair watches. - COUNTERGUARD
A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire. - COGUARDIAN
A joint guardian. - VANGUARD
The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van. (more info) avant before, fore + garde guard. See Avant, Ab-,Ante-, and Guard, - DEATHWATCH
A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ, - IMPROPERTY
Impropriety. - DOGWATCH
A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p.m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, P. M. Totten. - AXLE GUARD
The part of the framing of a railway car or truck, by which an axle box is held laterally, and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England.