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The striking of a clock. [Obs.] Dryden.

Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical. Their services are clocklike, to be set Blackward and vorward at their lord's command. B. Jonson.

Like the motion of the hands of a clock; -- said of that direction of a rotation about an axis, or about a point in a plane, which is ordinarily reckoned negative.

The machinery of a clock, or machinary resembling that of a clock; machinery which produced regularity of movement.

re about half a dozen species, natives of the warmer parts of America. The common four- o'clock is M. Jalapa. Its flowers are white, yellow, and red, and open toward sunset, or earlier in cloudy weather; hence the name. It is also called marvel of Peru, and afternoon lady.

See Ladyrird.

An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel.

A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. See under Star.

A clock whose decorative case has the general form of a vase, esp. one in which there is no ordinary dial, but in which a part of a vase revolves while a single stationary indicator serves as a hand.

An instrument or machine serving to measure time by the fall, or flow, of a certain quantity of water; a clepsydra.

Of. [Obs.] "The name of John a Gaunt." "What time a day is it " Shak. "It's six a clock." B. Jonson.

as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day.

ing their attention; an alarum. Alarm bell, a bell that gives notice on danger. -- Alarm clock or watch, a clock or watch which can be so set as to ring or strike loudly at a prearranged hour, to wake from sleep, or excite attention. -- Alarm gauge, a contrivance attached to a steam boiler for showing when the pressu…

s expressing the difference between the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six hours from its meridian passage.

e with the methods or principles of astronomy. -- As`tro*nom"ic*al*ly, adv. Astronomical clock. See under Clock. -- Astronomical day. See under Day. -- Astronomical fractions, Astronomical numbers. See under Sexagesimal.

The relations of time, age, or order; as, at ten o'clock; at twenty-one; at once; at first.

A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).

h regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a balance.

to their arms or quarters, to direct an attack, or retreat, etc. -- Beat of a watch, or clock, the stroke or sound made by the action of the escapement. A clock is in beat or out of beat, according as the strokes is at equal or unequal intervals.

rmediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock. Between decks, the space, or in the space, between the decks of a vessel. -- Between ourselves, Between you and me, Between themselves, in confidence; with the understanding that the matter is not to be communicated to oth…