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A sacred or holy work or worship. [Obs.] Waterland.

A whoremonger. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.

An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower.

A nymph of paradise; -- so called by the Mohammedans.

Happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent; often repeated; renewed hour by hour; continual. In hourly expectation of a martyrdom. Sharp.

Goddess of the seasons, or of the hours of the day. Lo! where the rosy-blosomed Hours, Fair Venus' train, appear. Gray.

A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition.

Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid, isomeric with uric acid.

Daily; diurnal. [Obs.] Whiles from their journal labors they did rest. Spenser.

The keeping of a journal or diary. [Obs.]

One who keeps a journal or diary. [Obs.] Mickle.

Pertaining to journals or to journalists; contained in, or characteristic of, the public journals; as journalistic literature or enterprise.

To enter or record in a journal or diary. Johnson.

a day. [Obs.] Chaucer. We have yet large day, for scarce the sun Hath finished half his journey. Milton.

Worn out with journeying. [Obs.] Shak.

One who journeys.

- distinguished from apprentice and from master workman. I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well. Shak.

Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade.

A unit of work or energy equal to that done by one kilowatt acting for one hour; --approx. = 1.34 horse-power hour.