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Nones :: Nones (n. pl.) The hour of dinner; the noonday meal.

Nycthemeron :: Nycthemeron (n.) The natural day and night, or space of twenty-four hours..

Half-hourly :: Half-hourly (a.) Done or happening at intervals of half an hour.

Hourglass :: Hourglass (n.) An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower..

Tide :: Tide (prep.) The period of twelve hours.

Horal :: Horal (a.) Of or pertaining to an hour, or to hours..

Style :: Style (v. t.) The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon..

Dinner :: Dinner (n.) The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour..

Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) The striking of the clock to tell the hour.

Rattle :: Rattle (v. i.) To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour..

Ave Mary :: Ave Mary () A particular time (as in Italy, at the ringing of the bells about half an hour after sunset, and also at early dawn), when the people repeat the Ave Maria..

Lateness :: Lateness (n.) The state, condition, or quality, of being late; as, the lateness of his arrival; the lateness of the hour; the lateness of the season..

Semihoral :: Semihoral (a.) Half-hourly.

Vacant :: Vacant (a.) Unengaged with business or care; unemployed; unoccupied; disengaged; free; as, vacant hours..

Strickle :: Stricken (v. t.) Whole; entire; -- said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock.

Muezzin :: Muezzin (n.) A Mohammedan crier of the hour of prayer.

Tap :: Tap (n.) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, -- usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo..

Gate :: Gate (v. t.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.

Third :: Third (a.) Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day..

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

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