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- Clock - n. - A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.
- Clock - n. - A watch, esp. one that strikes.
- Clock - n. - The striking of a clock.
- Clock - n. - A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.
- Clock - v. t. - To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
- Clock - v. t. & i. - To call, as a hen. See Cluck.
- Clock - n. - A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (Scarabaeus stercorarius).
- Clocklike - a. - Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.
- Clockwork - n. - The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.
- Weight - v. t. - A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.
- Denote - v. t. - To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour.
- Regulator - n. - A clock, or other timepiece, used as a standard of correct time. See Astronomical clock (a), under Clock.
- Cock - n. - The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
- Slow - superl. - Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow.
- Mainspring - n. - The principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism, especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gunlock which impels the hammer. Hence: The chief or most powerful motive; the efficient cause of action.
- Exact - a. - Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts.
- Clocklike - a. - Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.
- Scape-wheel - n. - The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.
- Dingdong - n. - An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.
- Isochronon - n. - A clock that is designed to keep very accurate time.
- Minute-jack - n. - A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house.
- Hammer - n. - That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to indicate the hour.
- Stroke - v. t. - The striking of the clock to tell the hour.
- Strike - v. i. - To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to be struck; as, the clock strikes.
- Ticktack - n. - A noise like that made by a clock or a watch.
- Count-wheel - n. - The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.
- Strike - v. t. - To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.