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▪ I. outwatch, n.1 rare.|ˈaʊtˌwɒtʃ|
[out- 7.]
The act of reconnoitering or watching the enemy.
1853Lytton My Novel ix. iii, He occasionally sallied forth upon a kind of outwatch or reconnoitring expedition.
▪ II. outwatch, v.|aʊtˈwɒtʃ|
[out- 18, 17.]
trans. To outdo in watching, watch longer than; to watch (an object) till it disappears; to watch through and beyond (a period of time).
1626[see outwalk]. 1632Milton Penseroso 85 Or let my Lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in som high lonely Towr, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear. 1728Young Love Fame vii. 175 His eye..inur'd to wake, And outwatch every star, for Brunswick's sake. 1833Herschel Astron. ii. 44 To outwatch a long winter's night. 1872O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. iv. 17 The old man of West Cambridge, who outwatched the rest so long after they had gone to sleep in their own churchyards.
Hence outˈwatch n.2, the act of outwatching.
1865Swinburne Poems, St. Dorothy 58 Nor with outwatch of many travaillings Come to be eased of the least pain he hath. |