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n instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a sliding weight. It is set in motion by clockwork, and serves to measure time in music.

The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Shak.

ry minute as a sign of distress or mourning. -- Minute hand, the long hand of a watch or clock, which makes the circuit of the dial in an hour, and marks the minutes.

A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house.

A genus of plants. See Four-o'clock.

with respect to the relative movement of its parts. This is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion. Dr. H. More.

nce; musical persons. Musical, or Music, box, a box or case containing apparatus moved by clockwork so as to play certain tunes automatically. -- Musical fish (Zoöl.), any fish which utters sounds under water, as the drumfish, grunt, gizzard shad, etc. -- Musical glasses, glass goblets or bowls so tuned and arranged…

The middle of the day; midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock in the daytime.

Midday; twelve o'clock in the day; noon.

asuring, with suitable instruments, some magnitude, as the time of an occultation, with a clock; the right ascension of a star, with a transit instrument and clock; the sun's altitude, or the distance of the moon from a star, with a sextant; the temperature, with a thermometer, etc.

To surpass in telling, counting, or reckoning. "I have outtold the clock." Beau. & Fl.

One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel. Brande & C.

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

by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.

nces. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer.

See under Lantern. -- Pinion wire, wire fluted longitudinally, for making the pinions of clocks and watches. It is formed by being drawn through holes of the shape required for the leaves or teeth of the pinions.

, the northern called the arctic circle, and the southern the antarctic circle. -- Polar clock, a tube, containing a polarizing apparatus, turning on an axis parallel to that of the earth, and indicating the hour of the day on an hour circle, by being turned toward the plane of maximum polarization of the light of the…

To set, as the hands of a clock, to an earlier hour. (d) To restore to the original place; to replace. -- To put by. (a) To turn, set, or thrust, aside. "Smiling put the question by." Tennyson. (b) To lay aside; to keep; to sore up; as, to put by money. -- To put down. (a) To lay down; to deposit; to set down. (b) To…

ached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock.

ure of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc. To regulate a watch or clock, to adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time.