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sentires

sentires


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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.