watchful (woch ful)

[ Wakeful; sleeple . What watchful cares do interpose themselves Betwixt your eyes and night? Shak . , J. C., ii. 1. 98. 2. Vigilant; careful; wary; cautious; observant; alert; on the watch: with of before the thing to be regulated or observed, and against before the thing to be avoided: as, to be watch ful of one's behavior; to be watchful against the growth of vicious habits. Be watchful , and strengthen the things which remain. Rev. iii. 2. Watchful Servants to the Bagnio come, They're ne'er admitted to the Bathing-room. Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. =Syn. 2. Watchful, Vigilant, Wakeful, attentive, heedful, circumspect, guarded. Wakeful refers to the lack of disposition to sleep, especially at times when one would ordinarily have such a disposition; watchful and vigilant the mind, will, or conduct: they are of about equal vigor; watchful is the broader in its range of mean IMG:content-2104.png:[blocks in formation] used to measure the time of a watch, as on shipboard: usually a half-hour gla . - 2. A thin concavo-convex piece of gla used for covering the dial of a watch. Those made in recent times for watches that have not a double case, nehunting case, are thicker, and have a peculiar flattened curve. Compare crystal, 2 (c).