[ noun ] a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event <noun.person>
Sentry \Sen"try\, n.; pl. {Sentires}. [Probably from OF. senteret a little patch; cf. F. sentier path, and OF. sente. See {Sentinel}.] 1. (Mil.) A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.
2. Guard; watch, as by a sentinel.
Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother, sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep. --Dryden.
{Sentry box}, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his post, and shelter him from the weather.
Kite \Kite\ (k[imac]t), n. [OE. kyte, AS. c[=y]ta; cf. W. cud, cut.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) Any raptorial bird of the subfamily {Milvin[ae]}, of which many species are known. They have long wings, adapted for soaring, and usually a forked tail.
Note: The European species are {Milvus ictinus} and {Milvus migrans}; the pariah kite of India is {Milvus govinda}; the sacred or Brahmany kite of India is {Haliastur Indus}; the American fork-tailed kite is the {Nauclerus furcatus}.
2. Fig.: One who is rapacious.
Detested kite, thou liest. --Shak.
3. A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string.
4. (Naut.) A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light.
5. (Geom.) A quadrilateral, one of whose diagonals is an axis of symmetry. --Henrici.
6. Fictitious commercial paper used for raising money or to sustain credit, as a check which represents no deposit in bank, or a bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation check or bill. [Cant]
7. (Zo["o]l.) The brill. [Prov. Eng.]
8. (Naut.) A form of drag to be towed under water at any depth up to about forty fathoms, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface; -- called also {sentry}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{Flying kites}. (Naut.) See under {Flying}.
{Kite falcon} (Zo["o]l.), an African falcon of the genus {Avicida}, having some resemblance to a kite.
A half-hour before the three explosions, a sentry spotted two intruders and fired warning shots, then woke the sleeping soldiers and told them to get out.
The bridges to the pond behind the house also are strung with garlands, and 6-foot candy canes and lollipops stand sentry on the bridge to the island.
Yes, this is the day for all of us to salute the soldiers, sailors, marines and aviators who stand sentry on the frontiers of freedom all over the world.
The authors note that the word comes from the Latin for 'hear': the auditor they envisage is the shareholder's sentry.
Residents and witnesses to the breakout at Vavuniya town, 135 miles north of Colombo, said other Tamils apparently created a diversion by firing at a nearby Indian sentry post.
Erickson said Matlovich told him one of the medals was awarded after he killed two Viet Cong soldiers while on sentry duty.
Sprouting from a single seed, it grew as the nation did, from a few scented needles to a 74-foot sentry of the forest.
Nicholson was shot and killed by a Soviet army sentry more than three years ago while on what was supposed to be a routine surveillance mission inside East Germany.
"There's an absence of the normal sounds a dog makes when it attacks," said Burns, who trained sentry dogs for the military. "It's almost a workmanlike way they hold on in an attack.
A sentry with an M-16 rifle demands the password.
The remaining Cubans mostly are on sentry duty.
The Soviets have said Nicholson was improperly wearing a camouflaged uniform, had strayed into a restricted area and ignored shouted warnings before the sentry opened fire.