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Senʹtinel

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Archd. Smith says, “It is one set to watch the sentīna (Lat.) or hold of a ship,” but the Fr. sentier, a path or “beat,” is far more probable. (French, sentinelle; Italian, sentinella; the French sentier is from the Latin semĭta.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Selling Race (A)
Selling the Pass
Seltzer Water
Semiramis of the North
Senanus. (St.)
Seneca
Senior Optime
Sennacherib
Sennight
Sentences
Sentinel
Sepoy
Sept
September Massacres
Septuagesima Sunday
Septuagint
Seraglio
Seraphim
Serapis
Serat (Al)
Serbonian Bog or Serbonis