Word Meanings - WATCHTOWER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like.

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• PLACODERMATA
  See PLACODERMI
• WATCHET
  Pale or light blue. "Watchet mantles." Spenser. Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes Dryden.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• 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.
• SENTINEL
  A marine crab native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab. (more info) originally, a litle path, the sentinel's beat,, and a dim. of a word meaning, path; cf. F. sente path.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• PLACID
  Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
• 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
• WATCH MEETING
  A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year.
• PLACIT
  A decree or determination; a dictum. "The placits and opinions of other philosophers." Evelyn.
• PLACOPHORA
  A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.
• TOWERED
  Adorned or defended by towers. Towered cities please us then. Milton.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• 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
• PLACIDNESS
  The quality or state of being placid.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• APPROACHABLENESS
  The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility.
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• 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,
• 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.