a constellation on the equator to the east of Taurus; contains Betelgeuse and Rigel
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a watch with a hinged metal lid to protect the crystal
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Hunter \Hunt"er\, n. 1. One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman.
2. A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog. --Shak.
3. A horse used in the chase; especially, a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
4. One who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter.
No keener hunter after glory breathes. --Tennyson.
5. (Zo["o]l.) A kind of spider. See {Hunting spider}, under {Hunting}.
6. A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover.
{Hunter's room}, the lunation after the harvest moon.
{Hunter's screw} (Mech.), a differential screw, so named from the inventor. See under {Differential}.
Watch \Watch\ (w[o^]ch), n. [OE. wacche, AS. w[ae]cce, fr. wacian to wake; akin to D. wacht, waak, G. wacht, wache. [root]134. See {Wake}, v. 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.
Shepherds keeping watch by night. --Milton.
All the long night their mournful watch they keep. --Addison.
Note: Watch was formerly distinguished from ward, the former signifying a watching or guarding by night, and the latter a watching, guarding, or protecting by day Hence, they were not unfrequently used together, especially in the phrase to keep watch and ward, to denote continuous and uninterrupted vigilance or protection, or both watching and guarding. This distinction is now rarely recognized, watch being used to signify a watching or guarding both by night and by day, and ward, which is now rarely used, having simply the meaning of guard, or protection, without reference to time.
Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward. --Spenser.
Ward, guard, or custodia, is chiefly applied to the daytime, in order to apprehend rioters, and robbers on the highway . . . Watch, is properly applicable to the night only, . . . and it begins when ward ends, and ends when that begins. --Blackstone.
2. One who watches, or those who watch; a watchman, or a body of watchmen; a sentry; a guard.
Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can. --Matt. xxvii. 65.
3. The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
He upbraids Iago, that he made him Brave me upon the watch. --Shak.
4. 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.
I did stand my watch upon the hill. --Shak.
Might we but hear . . . Or whistle from the lodge, or village cock Count the night watches to his feathery dames. --Milton.
5. A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.
Note: Watches are often distinguished by the kind of escapement used, as an {anchor watch}, a {lever watch}, a {chronometer watch}, etc. (see the Note under {Escapement}, n., 3); also, by the kind of case, as a {gold} or {silver watch}, an {open-faced watch}, a {hunting watch}, or {hunter}, etc.
6. (Naut.) (a) An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. {Dogwatch}. (b) 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}.
{Anchor watch} (Naut.), a detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck when a vessel is at anchor.
{To be on the watch}, to be looking steadily for some event.
{Watch and ward} (Law), the charge or care of certain officers to keep a watch by night and a guard by day in towns, cities, and other districts, for the preservation of the public peace. --Wharton. --Burrill.
{Watch and watch} (Naut.), the regular alternation in being on watch and off watch of the two watches into which a ship's crew is commonly divided.
{Watch barrel}, the brass box in a watch, containing the mainspring.
{Watch bell} (Naut.), a bell struck when the half-hour glass is run out, or at the end of each half hour. --Craig.
{Watch bill} (Naut.), a list of the officers and crew of a ship as divided into watches, with their stations. --Totten.
{Watch case}, the case, or outside covering, of a watch; also, a case for holding a watch, or in which it is kept.
{Watch chain}. Same as {watch guard}, below.
{Watch clock}, a watchman's clock; see under {Watchman}.
{Watch fire}, a fire lighted at night, as a signal, or for the use of a watch or guard.
{Watch glass}. (a) A concavo-convex glass for covering the face, or dial, of a watch; -- also called {watch crystal}. (b) (Naut.) A half-hour glass used to measure the time of a watch on deck.
{Watch guard}, a chain or cord by which a watch is attached to the person.
{Watch gun} (Naut.), a gun sometimes fired on shipboard at 8 p. m., when the night watch begins.
{Watch light}, a low-burning lamp used by watchers at night; formerly, a candle having a rush wick.
{Watch night}, The last night of the year; -- so called by the Methodists, Moravians, and others, who observe it by holding religious meetings lasting until after midnight.
{Watch paper}, an old-fashioned ornament for the inside of a watch case, made of paper cut in some fanciful design, as a vase with flowers, etc.
{Watch tackle} (Naut.), a small, handy purchase, consisting of a tailed double block, and a single block with a hook.
"When I saw him for the first time, I just couldn't believe how big he was," Nugent, an avid hunter, said recently.
Bob LaSalle, one of about two dozen hunters who fled the fire, said a hunter in another camp told him the fire started from a spark from a cookstove.
The other hunter tried to grab the shotgun, but the writhing reptile triggered the other barrel, the agency said.
"We like to think of ourselves as the Mel Fisher of the oil patch," said Western Chairman Steven S. McGuire, referring to the celebrated undersea treasure hunter.
"I'm not a job hunter," Jatoi said after a coalition meeting that ended his brief tenure.
Each licensed hunter is permitted to take up to 15 gators in designated areas this month as part of the state's first hunt in a quarter-century.
The 50-year-old hunter suffered minor injuries when he was hit by pellets from a shotgun accidently fired by his dog Terna, a Finnish Hound, said Steinar Mydland, a Lyngdal district deputy sheriff, confirming a report in the Oslo daily Aftenposten.
Lewis, an avid hunter, said Thursday that the controversy surrounding the department since February was unwarranted.
The company has acknowledged that its unit engaged in practices it's "not proud of," but denied paying bounty hunter fees or involvement in other illegal activities.
He and the hunter met in the brush-studded Chipangali region of eastern Zambia, heavily infested by trypanosomiasis - a disease borne by tsetse files that can be fatal to man and beast.
Sheriff Andy Lee said Wednesday the hunter who found the decomposed body of Dana Stidham of Centerton on Sept. 16, went hunting the next morning before notifying the sheriff's office.
About 20 French relatives of Nazi victims were among the spectators, as well as French Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld. Spectators said the French spectators included relatives of those whom Korff was accused of deporting.
Though state game biologists are skeptical, Mr. Brenteson tells of a hunt in which he and two friends shot two deer and began dressing them, one hunter standing watch.
The fields are sculpted with the game and the hunter in mind, laid out in ways that make each one a separate experience enjoyed only by the hunters within it.
A passionate hunter, De Mestral came home once from a day in the fields and found burrs stuck to his pants.
Even that upsets them," she said of the animated Disney movie in which the young deer's mother is shot by a hunter.
A squirrel hunter delayed reporting the discovery of a body because he feared the ensuing investigation would spoil the next day's hunt, a prosecutor said.
The investigation will determine whether the hunter, whose name was not released, shot the crane intentionally or by accident, Giezentanner said.
I thought it was an elk and Shot," the 70-year-old elk hunter told the court.
She was found Monday by a deer hunter, two days after the search for her had been called off.
We're going to release the snakes back into the wild as close to where each was caught as possible." Others, like veteran snake hunter J.P. Jones, think the snakes should be killed because they are a danger to hunters and others.
A female whooping crane flying through heavy fog with her mate was shot by a hunter, the first reported killing of the endangered bird in 21 years, authorities said.
One year after jumping bail and failing to appear in court for a trial on sexual-assault charges, a former high school honor student remains on the lam, pursued by a bounty hunter, the FBI and police.
Other displays include: -A model of a NOAA hurricane hunter airplane.
"A hunter's stray bullet, a pick-up truck whose brakes fail, even a sledge hammer blow could explode some tanks," Walgren said.
Orion is the hunter in mythology, and the Zodiac referred to himself as the hunter in a letter to police.
Orion is the hunter in mythology, and the Zodiac referred to himself as the hunter in a letter to police.
As the gap between the shuttle and the wayward laboratory closed, hunter and hunted were traveling nearly 200 miles high at more than 17,400 mph.
A documentary on HBO has more credibility than anywhere else." Last year's "Murderers Among Us," the story of Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, won HBO an Emmy for writing in a television movie.
That is exactly what happens to Bambi, the young deer and prince of the forest whose mother dies off-screen at the hands of a hunter.