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stances attending birth, as time, place, manner, etc. Chaucer. I have served him from the hour of my nativity. Shak. Thou hast left ... the land of thy nativity. Ruth ii. 11. These in their dark nativity the deep Shall yield us, pregnant with infernal flame. Milton.

tle from the original key. Moore (Encyc. of Music). Natural day, the space of twenty-four hours. Chaucer. -- Natural fats, Natural gas, etc. See under Fat, Gas. etc. -- Natural Harmony (Mus.), the harmony of the triad or common chord. -- Natural history, in its broadest sense, a history or description of nature as a…

necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural. These should be hours for necessities, Not for delights. Shak. What was once to me Mere matter of the fancy, now has grown The vast necessity of heart and life. Tennyson.

Nearest in time; as, the next day or hour.

he canonical office, being a part of the Breviary, recited at noon (formerly at the ninth hour, 3 P. M.) in the Roman Catholic Church.

The natural day and night, or space of twenty-four hours.

nomical observer. The observed of all observers. Shak. Careful observers may foretell the hour, By sure prognostic, when to dread a shower. Swift.

ss or distance, either in space or time; from; as, within a league of the town; within an hour of the appointed time.

in) length of existence; -- designating the age of a person or thing; as, an infant a few hours old; a cathedral centuries old. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou Cen. xlvii. 8.

Orblike; having the course of an orb; revolving. [Obs.] "Orby hours." Chapman.

To dwell or stay beyond. [Poetic] "He outdwells his hour." Shak.

to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing. Appetites which . . . had outstripped the hours. Southey. He still outstript me in the race. Tennyson.

To sleep beyond; as, to oversleep one's self or one's usual hour of rising.

hat have spoke the word, And will not palter. Shak. Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with eternal God for power. Tennyson.

io's hand, and so they parted. Shak. He owned that he had parted from the duke only a few hours before. Macaulay. His precious bag, which he would by no means part from. G. Eliot.

ful art. Spenser. Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour. Byron.

Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour. Is it not past two o'clock Shak.

r killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked. Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar. Shak. Pernicious to his health. Prescott.

Under the dominion or influence of a planet. "Skilled in the planetary hours." Drayton.

tion of the heavens, the time of rising and setting of stars, etc., for any given date or hour.