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Horaly :: Horaly (adv.) Hourly.

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

Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours..

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

Sext :: Sext (n.) The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary..

Make :: Make (v. t.) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day..

Intrude :: Intrude (v. i.) To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another..

Denote :: Denote (v. t.) To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour..

Late :: Late (v.) Far advanced toward the end or close; as, a late hour of the day; a late period of life..

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, of a yard, of an hour, etc..

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

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..

Clock :: Clock (n.) A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person..

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

Horary :: Horary (a.) Occurring once an hour; continuing an hour; hourly; ephemeral.

Time :: Time (n.) Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition..

Some :: Some (a.) About; near; more or less; -- used commonly with numerals, but formerly also with a singular substantive of time or distance; as, a village of some eighty houses; some two or three persons; some hour hence..

Late :: Late (v.) Continuing or doing until an advanced hour of the night; as, late revels; a late watcher..

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

Deathbed :: Deathbed (n.) 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..

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