'Sentires' definitions:
Definition of 'Sentires'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Guard; watch, as by a sentinel. [1913 Webster]
- Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother, sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Sentry box, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his post, and shelter him from the weather. [1913 Webster]