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nder Moment. -- Rotation in office, the practice of changing public officers at frequent intervals by discharges and substitutions. -- Rotation of crops, the practices of cultivating an orderly succession of different crops on the same land.

The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire. This is hire and salary, not revenge. Shak.

The sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life. The sands are numbered that make up my life. Shak.

g graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals. Specifically:

An interval equal to half a comma.

A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide.

The interval between any tone and the tone which is represented on the degree of the staff next above it.

een allowed for. -- Secular games (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the like. -- Secular music, any music or songs not adapted to sacred uses. -- Secular hymn or poem, a hymn or poem composed for the se…

Seats in the chancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service. Hook.

In a semimonthly manner; at intervals of half a month.

Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.

At intervals of half a week each.

A minor third, or interval of three semitones.

An interval of two octaves and a third.

An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale.

Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.

An interval comprising two octaves and a second. Moore (Encyc. of Music.)

The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.

A road having partly sunken transverse logs (called skids) at intervals of about five feet.

The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.