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Clockwork :: Clockwork (n.) The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement..

Metronome :: Metronome (n.) An instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a sliding weight. It is set in motion by clockwork, and serves to measure time in music..

Water Clock :: Water clock () An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra..

Noonday :: Noonday (n.) Midday; twelve o'clock in the day; noon.

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..

Scape-wheel :: Scape-wheel (n.) The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.

Timekeeper :: Timekeeper (n.) A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece..

Fusee :: Fusee (n.) The cone or conical wheel of a watch or clock, designed to equalize the power of the mainspring by having the chain from the barrel which contains the spring wind in a spiral groove on the surface of the cone in such a manner that the diameter of the cone at the point where the chain acts may correspond with the degree of tension of the spring..

Hall :: Hall (n.) The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock..

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

Adjourn :: Adjourn (v. i.) To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day..

Till :: Till (v. t.) To; unto; up to; as far as; until; -- now used only in respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in Scotland and in parts of England and Ireland; as, I worked till four o'clock; I will wait till next week..

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

Between :: Between (prep.) In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock..

Clock :: Clock (n.) A watch, esp. one that strikes..

Observation :: Observation (n.) Specifically, the act of measuring, with suitable instruments, some magnitude, as the time of an occultation, with a clock; the right ascension of a star, with a transit instrument and clock; the sun's altitude, or the distance of the moon from a star, with a sextant; the temperature, with a thermometer, etc..

Four-o''clock :: Four-o'clock (n.) A plant of the genus Mirabilis. There are about half a dozen species, natives of the warmer parts of America. The common four-o'clock is M. Jalapa. Its flowers are white, yellow, and red, and open toward sunset, or earlier in cloudy weather; hence the name. It is also called marvel of Peru, and afternoon lady..

Snail :: Snail (n.) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock..

Hammer :: Hammer (n.) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.

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

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