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CLOCK, n.

1. A machine, consisting of wheels moved by weights, so constructed that by a uniform vibration of a pendulum, it measures time, and its divisions, hours, minutes and seconds, with great exactness. It indicates the hour by the stroke of a small hammer on a bell.

The phrases, what oclock is it? It is nine oclock, seem to be contracted from what of the clock? It is nine of the clock.

2. A figure or figured work in the ankle of a stocking.

CLOCK, v.t. To call. [See Cluck.]



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CLOCK, n.

1. A machine, consisting of wheels moved by weights, so constructed that by a uniform vibration of a pendulum, it measures time, and its divisions, hours, minutes and seconds, with great exactness. It indicates the hour by the stroke of a small hammer on a bell.

The phrases, what oclock is it? It is nine oclock, seem to be contracted from what of the clock? It is nine of the clock.

2. A figure or figured work in the ankle of a stocking.

CLOCK, v.t. To call. [See Cluck.]


CLOCK, n. [Sax. clugga, clucga; D. klok; G. klocke; Dan. klokke; Sw. klocka; Fr. cloche; Arm. cloch, or clech; Ir. clog; W. clôc; properly a bell, and named from its sound, from striking. It coincides in origin with clack and cluck, L. glocio, Ch. גלג. Class Lg, No. 27. See Cluck.]

  1. A machine, consisting of wheels moved by weights, so constructed that by a uniform vibration of a pendulum, it measures time, and its divisions, hours, minutes, and seconds, with great exactness. It indicates the hour by the stroke of a small hammer on a bell. The phrases, what o'clock is it? it is nine o'clock, seem to be contracted from what of the clock? it is nine of the clock.
  2. A figure or figured work in the ankle of a stocking. – Swift.

CLOCK, v.t.

To call. [See Cluck.]


Clock
  1. 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.
  2. To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
  3. To call, as a hen. See Cluck.

    [R.]
  4. A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabæus stercorarius).
  5. A watch, esp. one that strikes.

    [Obs.] Walton.
  6. The striking of a clock.

    [Obs.] Dryden.
  7. A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.

    Swift.

    &fist] The phrases what o'clock? it is nine o'clock, etc., are contracted from what of the clock? it is nine of the clock, etc.

    Alarm clock. See under Alarm. -- Astronomical clock. (a) A clock of superior construction, with a compensating pendulum, etc., to measure time with great accuracy, for use in astronomical observatories; -- called a regulator when used by watchmakers as a standard for regulating timepieces. (b) A clock with mechanism for indicating certain astronomical phenomena, as the phases of the moon, position of the sun in the ecliptic, equation of time, etc. -- Electric clock. (a) A clock moved or regulated by electricity or electro-magnetism. (b) A clock connected with an electro-magnetic recording apparatus. -- Ship's clock (Naut.), a clock arranged to strike from one to eight strokes, at half hourly intervals, marking the divisions of the ship's watches. -- Sidereal clock, an astronomical clock regulated to keep sidereal time.

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Clock

CLOCK, noun

1. A machine, consisting of wheels moved by weights, so constructed that by a uniform vibration of a pendulum, it measures time, and its divisions, hours, minutes and seconds, with great exactness. It indicates the hour by the stroke of a small hammer on a bell.

The phrases, what oclock is it? It is nine oclock, seem to be contracted from what of the clock? It is nine of the clock

2. A figure or figured work in the ankle of a stocking.

CLOCK, verb transitive To call. [See Cluck.]

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

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DOCK, n. [Gr., L.] A genus of plants, the Rumex, of several species. Its root resembles a carrot.

DOCK, v.t.

1. To cut off, as the end of a thing; to curtail; to cut short; to clip; as, to dock the tail of a horse.

2. To cut off a part; to shorten; to deduct from; as, to dock an account.

3. To cut off, destroy or defeat; to bar; as, to dock an entail.

4. To bring, draw or place a ship in a dock.

DOCK, n.

1. The tail of a beast cut short or clipped; the stump of a tail; the solid part of the tail.

2. A case of leather to cover a horses dock.

DOCK, n. A broad deep trench on the side of a harbor, or bank of a river, in which ships are built or repaired. A dry dock has flood-gates to admit the tide, and to prevent the influx, as occasion may require. Wet docks have no flood-gates, but ships may be repaired in them during the recess of the tide. Wet docks are also constructed with gates to deep the water in at ebb tide, so that vessels may lie constantly afloat in them. In America, the spaces between wharves are called docks.

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