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Prick :: Prick (v.) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour..

Captive :: Captive (a.) Of or pertaining to bondage or confinement; serving to confine; as, captive chains; captive hours..

Horometry :: Horometry (n.) The art, practice, or method of measuring time by hours and subordinate divisions..

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

Horologe :: Horologe (n.) A servant who called out the hours.

Hour :: Hour (n.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers..

March :: March (n.) The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles..

At :: At (prep.) Primarily, this word expresses the relations of presence, nearness in place or time, or direction toward; as, at the ninth hour; at the house; to aim at a mark. It is less definite than in or on; at the house may be in or near the house. From this original import are derived all the various uses of at..

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

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

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

Leisurable :: Leisurable (a.) Vacant of employment; not occupied; idle; leisure; as leisurable hours.

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

Bissextile :: Bissextile (n.) Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400..

Watch :: Watch (n.) An allotted portion of time, usually four hour for standing watch, or being on deck ready for duty. Cf. Dogwatch..

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

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

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..

Breviary :: Breviary (n.) A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal..

Horaly :: Horaly (adv.) Hourly.

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