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m of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof. The time wasteth [i. e. passes away] night and day. Chaucer. I know of no ideas . . . that have a better claim to be accounted simple and original than those of space and time. Reid.

A policy limited to become void at a specified time; -- often contrasted with voyage policy.

e beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as time unit for the beat, and the numerator, the number of these to the measure.…

Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by reason of antiquity, or long continuance.

A tabular statement of the time at which, or within which, several things are to take place, as the recitations in a school, the departure and arrival of railroad trains or other public conveyances, the rise and fall of the tides, etc.

Seasonable; timely; sufficiently early. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece.

Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely. [R.] Nor fits it to prolong the heavenly feast Timeless, indecent. Pope.

In a timeless manner; unseasonably. [R.] Milton.

The quality or state of being timely; seasonableness; opportuneness.

A timeserver. [Obs.]

Being or occurring in good time; sufficiently early; seasonable. "The timely dew of sleep." Milton.

A rope carried taut between or over obstacles likely to engage or foul the running rigging in working a ship.

Timely; seasonable. [R. or Scot.] -- Time"ous*ly, adv. [R. or Scot.]

A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.

One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver. Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. Shak.

A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc.

Saving time; as, a timesaving expedient.

One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense.

Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.