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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..

Bear :: Bear (n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.

Block :: Block (v. t.) A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc..

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

Block Book :: Block book () A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.

White-foot :: White-foot (n.) A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin..

Cassidony :: Cassidony (n.) The goldilocks (Chrysocoma Linosyris) and perhaps other plants related to the genus Gnaphalium or cudweed.

Wedlock :: Wedlock (v. t.) To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.

Sot :: Sot (n.) A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.

Mirabilis :: Mirabilis (n.) A genus of plants. See Four-o'clock.

Count-wheel :: Count-wheel (n.) The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.

Burton :: Burton (n.) A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part..

Unlock :: Unlock (v. t.) To unfasten, as what is locked; as, to unlock a door or a chest..

Lock :: Lock (n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc..

Jolthead :: Jolthead (n.) A dunce; a blockhead.

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

Windgall :: Windgall (n.) A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.

Stumblingly :: Stumbling-block (n.) Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error..

Crosier :: Crosier (n.) The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God..

Flock :: Flock (v. t.) To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock..

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