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SENT'INEL, n. [from L. sentio, to perceive.] In military affairs, a soildier sent to watch or guard an army, camp or other place from surprise, to observe the approach of danger and give notice of it. In popular sense, the word is contracted into sentry.
One who watches or guards;
specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or
other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and
give notice of it; a sentry.
The sentinels who paced the ramparts. Macaulay. Watch; guard.
[Obs.] "That princes do
keep due sentinel." Bacon. A marine crab
(Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable
for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel
crab.
To watch over like a sentinel.
"To
sentinel enchanted land." [R.] Sir W. Scott. To furnish with a sentinel] to place under
the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.
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