Watch

1. v. i. To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; — said of a buoy.
2. v. i. The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night.
3. v. i. One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard.
4. v. i. The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
5. v. i. The period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night.
6. v. i. A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.
7. n. An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch.
8. n. That part, usually one half, of the officers and crew, who together attend to the working of a vessel for an allotted time, usually four hours. The watches are designated as the port watch, and the starboard watch.
9. v. i. To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil.
10. v. i. To be attentive or vigilant; to give heed; to be on the lookout; to keep guard; to act as sentinel.
11. 1v. i. 1 To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; — said of a buoy.
12. 1v. i. 1 The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or preventive vigilance; formerly, a watching or guarding by night.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.