| 释义 |
ˈwatchless, a.
[f. watch n. + -less.]
1. a. Keeping no watch. b. Unwatched, unguarded.
1622Gataker Spirituall Watch (ed. 2) 124 There is great difference betweene the watchfull and the watchlesse Christian. 1721Cibber Perolla i. i, How cam'st thou first to set Thy watchless Eyes upon this fatal Wretch. 1842Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. 8 The hills are covered with flocks of sheep..browsing watchless, because they know no danger. 1852Rock Ch. of Fathers III. i. 199 If..it happen with them, in some watchless moment, that they stumble.
2. Of a night: Not broken into watches; having no wakeful intervals.
1850Blackie æschylus I. 27 To their hearts' content They live, and through the watchless night prolong Sound slumbers. |