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† ˈover-watch, n. Obs.
[over- 18, 29, 1 (c).]
a. A watching too long or too late, too much watching.
b. A person who watches over another.
1399Langl. Rich. Redeles iii. 282 And euere shall þou ffynde..That wisdom and ouere-wacche wonneth ffer asundre. 1494Fabyan Chron. vi. clxx. (1533) 98 b/1 Tyred..wyth ouer watche and laboure. a1650Eger & Grine 944 in Furniv. Percy Folio I. 383 Gray-steele had ouer-waches 2. They went & told their Master anon right. |