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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.

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  • 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.

 

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