单词 | to make watch |
释义 | > as lemmasto make watch a. The action or an act of watching or observing with continuous attention; a continued look-out, as of a sentinel or guard. Chiefly in phrases, †to make watch, to keep (a, the) watch, to set a watch. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > [noun] > as a watchman or sentinel wardOE day watchOE watch1377 watch and ward1390 wakingc1440 scout-watch1464 watching and warding1579 sentinel1585 day ward1597 romboyle1612 escouta1627 sentry1639 watchment1740 wardage1878 sentry-go1880 sentry-going1901 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. ix. 17 Ac þe constable of þat castel þat kepeth al þe wacche, Is a wyse kniȝte with-al, sire Inwitte he hatte. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 520/1 Wetche, for enmees, excubie. 1486 Countess of Oxford in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 447 I..streitly chargie you, that ye..endevoire yourself that suche wetche or othir meanes be vsed and hadde in the poortes, crekes, and othre places..to the letting of his seid purpose. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 318 He..has the castell tan, Throu falt of vach, vith litill payn. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xx. 318 And the[i] drinke and ete ech day and trouble so theire braynes that thei sette litill wacche in theire hoste. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin iv. 76 Therfore a-ray youre oste and your barons, and comaunde hem to make gode wacche to diffende hem-self. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Excubiæ,..watche, as well by daye as by nyghte. 1549 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 64 That day begane agayne the washe at every gatt in London of the comeneres in harnes with weppyns. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxx They kepe so good watche, that nothing can escape them. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 650 The Magistrates and gouernours caused great watches to be kept, and good order to be obserued. 1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. vii. 18 The Generall.. determined to enter into the Harbour of Monsambicke,..appointing also there shoulde be great watch, for preuention of the Moores. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. v. 8 King. Good Norffolke, hie thee to thy charge, Vse carefull watch, chuse trustie centinell. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 51 Loue can finde entrance, not only into an open Heart; but also into a Heart well fortified; if watch be not well kept. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1625 (1955) II. 7 I well remember the strict Watches, and examinations upon the Ways as we pass'd. 1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 28 Good watch prevents misfortune. 1798 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee Canterbury Tales II. 238 [He] had a strict watch kept on the wanderings of the melancholy Lenox. 1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. iii. 10 Even so, heart-searching Lord,..Thou keepest silent watch from thy triumphal throne. 1835 G. P. R. James Gipsy ii ‘Keep a good watch, my boys,’ he said,..‘There is danger stirring abroad.’ 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. viii. 243 Many an eager eye glanced up to where the Look-out on the mast kept watch for Holyhead. 1867 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. Oct. 431 The look in it as of bright bewildered eyes with tears not theirs and alien wonder in the watch of them. 1886 C. Scholl Phraseol. Dict. II. 834 I kept a watch on that man all the time he was on the premises. 1901 Munsey's Mag. 24 515/2 He kept watch of you even after the money was stolen. < as lemmas |
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