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Surveillant :: Surveillant (n.) One who watches over another; an overseer; a spy; a supervisor.

Watches :: Watches (n. pl.) The leaves of Saracenia flava. See Trumpets.

Watcher :: Watcher (n.) One who watches; one who sits up or continues; a diligent observer; specifically, one who attends upon the sick during the night..

Tout :: Tout (n.) One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting..

Conder :: Conder (n.) One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker.

Pernoctalian :: Pernoctalian (n.) One who watches or keeps awake all night.

Sentinel :: Sentinel (n.) One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry..

Horologer :: Horologer (n.) A maker or vender of clocks and watches; one skilled in horology.

Lurcher :: Lurcher (n.) One that lurches or lies in wait; one who watches to pilfer, or to betray or entrap; a poacher..

Minder :: Minder (n.) One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom..

Tutor :: Tutor (n.) One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing..

Watch :: Watch (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..

Horography :: Horography (n.) The art of constructing instruments for making the hours, as clocks, watches, and dials..

Broach :: Broach (n.) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper..

Wait :: Wait (v. i.) One who watches; a watchman.

Watch :: Watch (v. i.) One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard..

Balance Wheel :: Balance wheel () A ratchet-shaped scape wheel, which in some watches is acted upon by the axis of the balance wheel proper (in those watches called a balance)..

Tidewaiter :: Tidewaiter (n.) A customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties..

Horology :: Horology (n.) The science of measuring time, or the principles and art of constructing instruments for measuring and indicating portions of time, as clocks, watches, dials, etc..

Watchmaker :: Watchmaker (n.) One whose occupation is to make and repair watches.

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