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Regulator :: Regulator (n.) A clock, or other timepiece, used as a standard of correct time. See Astronomical clock (a), under Clock..

Balance :: Balance (n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary)..

Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march..

Tachometer :: Tachometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of running water in a river or canal, consisting of a wheel with inclined vanes, which is turned by the current. The rotations of the wheel are recorded by clockwork..

Mirabilis :: Mirabilis (n.) A genus of plants. See Four-o'clock.

Perambulator :: Perambulator (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer..

Horologe :: Horologe (n.) An instrument indicating the time of day; a timepiece of any kind; a watch, clock, or dial..

At :: At (prep.) The relations of time, age, or order; as, at ten o'clock; at twenty-one; at once; at first..

Four-o''clock :: Four-o'clock (n.) The friar bird; -- so called from its cry, which resembles these words..

Hand :: Hand (n.) An index or pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute hand of a clock..

Isochronon :: Isochronon (n.) A clock that is designed to keep very accurate time.

Dor :: Dor (n.) A large European scaraboid beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius), which makes a droning noise while flying. The name is also applied to allied American species, as the June bug. Called also dorr, dorbeetle, or dorrbeetle, dorbug, dorrfly, and buzzard clock..

Clock :: Clock (n.) The striking of a clock.

Christcross :: Christcross (n.) The mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects, -- sometimes as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial..

Chronograph :: Chronograph (n.) An instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity..

Slow :: Slow (superl.) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow..

Ten-o''clock :: Ten-o'clock (n.) A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. See under Star..

Balance Wheel :: Balance wheel () A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a balance..

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel..

Clock :: Clock (n.) A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius)..

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