Verb
To look out for; watch over
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Ah! vanity is all to him who knows (Well warn'd by this!) his day's a fleeting cloud! —'Tis sacred wisdom to forewatch the close! To eye each hour—the Coffin and the Shroud!
To learn, to know, how energies may pass / I would forewatch the waters near the moon / To spell the tidal change — and feel it chance [...]
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The spring-tight coil of days unrolls for them, / Their little and deep long eyes forewatch the dead — / The mouse-eyed Fates can number the known times / He will remember this, the thing unsaid.
Noun
A foreward positioned guard or sentry; vanguard
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The forewatch on the Trident called out, "Ho! Pharos ahead!" Straining his eyes, Pilate could see only a tiny blemish of luminous orange on the southeastern horizon.
It was the forewatch who spotted it first bearing down from the front. They were under attack!
An early watch
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Jason takes the forewatches — 6 to noon, 6 to midnight — and Jimmy takes the afterwatches.