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.
A watcg, esp. one that strikes. [Obs.] Walton.
The striking of a clock. [Obs.] Dryden.
A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking. Swift.
To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
To call, as a hen. See Cluck. [R.]
A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabæus stercorarius).
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