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Clock

A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.

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Alarm 76% connected

A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.

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Chronometer 76% connected

An instrument for measuring time; a timekeeper.

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Clepsydra 76% connected

A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust. in Appendix.

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Water clock 76% connected

An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.

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Water glass 76% connected

See Soluble glass, under Glass.

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Broader term 4

Horologe 76% connected

A servant who called out the hours.

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Measure 76% connected

A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and s…

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Timekeeper 76% connected

A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece.

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Timepiece 76% connected

A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.

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Manner of action 1

Mistime 76% connected

To time wrongly; not to adapt to the time.

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Component part 2

Fusee 70% connected

A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil.

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Movement 70% connected

The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

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Synonym 1

Time 92% connected

Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.

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