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Day :: Day (n.) Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work..

Hour :: Hour (n.) The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.

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

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

Gnomonics :: Gnomonics (n.) The art or science of dialing, or of constructing dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon..

An :: An () This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as twice an hour, once an age, a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every..

Vespers :: Vespers (n.) One of the little hours of the Breviary.

Rate :: Rate (n.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc..

Horologiography :: Horologiography (n.) An account of instruments that show the hour.

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

Oversleep :: Oversleep (v. t.) To sleep beyond; as, to oversleep one's self or one's usual hour of rising..

Horography :: Horography (n.) An account of the hours.

Planisphere :: Planisphere (n.) The representation of the circles of the sphere upon a plane; especially, a representation of the celestial sphere upon a plane with adjustable circles, or other appendages, for showing the position of the heavens, the time of rising and setting of stars, etc., for any given date or hour..

Buttonhole :: Buttonhole (v. t.) To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour..

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

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

Day :: Day (n.) The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day

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

Semidiurnal :: Semidiurnal (a.) Pertaining to, or traversed in, six hours, or in half the time between the rising and setting of a heavenly body; as, a semidiurnal arc..

Dissipation :: Dissipation (n.) A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness..

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