morning watch

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• Morning

  ·adj Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as, ...

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• Watch

  ·vt To <<Tend>>; to <<Guard>>; to have in keeping. II. Watch ·vi To serve the purpose of a watchman...

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• watch

  The division of the ship's company into two parties, one called the starboard, and the other the lar...

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• watch and watch

  The arrangement of the crew in two watches. ...

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• Morning-glory

  ·noun A climbing plant (Ipomoea purpurea) having handsome, funnel-shaped flowers, usually red, pink,...

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• Yester-morning

  ·noun The morning of yesterday. ...

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• Star, Morning

  A name figuratively given to Christ (Rev. 22:16; comp. 2 Pet. 1:19). When Christ promises that he wi...

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• morning drop

  The gallows. He napped the king's pardon and escaped the morning drop; he was pardoned, and was not ...

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• morning gun

  The gun fired from the admiral's or senior officer's ship, to announce day-break, which is answered ...

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• morning star

  An offensive weapon of the mediæval times, consisting of a staff, to which was attached an iron ball...

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• Anchor watch

  ·add. ·- A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor. ...

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• Watch meeting

  ·add. ·- A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year. ...

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• Watch House

  At the south-east corner of St. Sepulchre's Church Yard on the north side of Snow Hill (Strype, ed. ...

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• dumb watch

  A venereal bubo in the groin. ...

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• afternoon-watch

  The men on deck-duty from noon till 4 P.M. ...

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• anchor-watch

  A subdivision of the watch kept constantly on deck during the time the ship lies at single anchor, t...

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• comparison watch

  The job-watch for taking an observation, compared before and after with the chronometer. ...

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• dog-watch

  The half-watches of two hours each, from 4 to 6, and from 6 to 8, in the evening. By this arrangemen...

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• first watch

  The men on deck-duty from 8 P.M. till midnight. ...

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• hack-watch

  , or job-watch (which see). ...

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• harbour-watch

  A division or subdivision of the watch kept on night-duty, when the ship rides at single anchor, to ...

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• job-watch

  , or hack-watch , for taking astronomical sights, which saves taking the chronometer on deck or on...

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• larboard-watch

  The old term for port-watch. The division of a ship's company called for duty, while the other, the ...

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• middle-watch

  The portion of the crew on deck-duty from midnight to 4 A.M. ...

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• quarter-watch

  A division of one-fourth of the crew into watches, which in light winds and well-conducted ships is ...

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• watch-bill

  The pocket "watch and station bill," which each officer is expected to produce if required, and inst...

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• watch-glasses

  The half-hour glasses employed to measure the periods of the watch, so that the several stations the...

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• watch-setting

  In the army, retreat, or the time for mounting the night-guards. ...

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• watch-tackle

  A small luff purchase with a short fall, the double block having a tail to it, and the single one a ...

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• cob-web morning

  a misty morning. Norf. ...

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• Old Watch House, Bishopsgate

  On the west side of Bishopsgate, south of St. Botolph's Bishopsgate Churchyard. "Ye olde Watch Hous...

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• Watch House, Barbican

  At the northern end of Red Cross Street at its junction with the Barbican (Rocque, 1746). Removed i...

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• Watch House, Bishopsgate

  See Old Watch House. ...

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• Watch House, Minories

  Removed 1830, when the system of parochial watching was superseded by the establishment of the polic...

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• call the watch

  This is done every four hours, except at the dog-watches, to relieve those on deck, also by pipe. "A...

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• half-watch tackle

  A luff purchase. (See watch-tackle.) ...

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• keeping a watch

  To have charge of the deck. Also, the act of being on watch-duty. ...

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• muster the watch

  A duty performed nightly at 8 P.M., and repeated when the watch is relieved up to 4 A.M. ...

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• setting the watch

  The military night guard or watch at the evening gun-fire. Naval watches are not interfered with by ...

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• grey of the morning

  twilight, from day-break to clear light. S. ...

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• pride of the morning

  A misty dew at sunrise; a light shower; the end of the land breeze followed by a dead calm in the tr...

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• midshipman's watch and chain

  A sheep's heart and pluck. ...

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• watch, chain, and seals

  A sheep's head And pluck. ...

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• battle the watch, to

  To shift as well as we can; to contend with a difficulty. To depend on one's own exertions. ...

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• mate of a watch

  The senior or passed midshipman is responsible to the officer of the watch. He heaves the log, inser...

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• officer of the watch

  The lieutenant or other officer who has charge of, and commands, the watch. ...

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• finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.

  Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...

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