Vespers: alternatives and connections

A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as…

A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.

A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours.

Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5…

An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris.

of Breviary

A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, na…

Of or pertaining to bondage or confinement; serving to confine; as, captive chains; captive hours.

(astronomy) the equatorial coordinate specifying the angle, measured eastward along the celestial equator, from the vernal equinox to…

A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by…

The last division of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer o…

the process of adjusting the eyes to low levels of illumination; cones adapt first; rods continue to adapt for up to four hours

The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between…

The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness.

An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as…

A small volume containing the daily service for the "little hours," viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline.

A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p. m., and the second dogwatch fro…