hourglass
hourglass is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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. Note: A similar instrument measuring any other interval of time takes its name from the interval measured; as, a half-hour glass, a half- minute glass. A three-minute glass is sometimes called an egg-glass, from being used to time the boiling of eggs.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- anatomy
- and
- angustation
- bone
- breadth
- closeness
- coarctation
- constriction
- contraction
- deposition
- emaciation
- exiguity
- exility
- filament
- ghat
- ghaut
- isthmus
- lantern
- line
- little
- macilency
- marcor
- mere
- middle
- narrowing
- narrowness
- neck
- paper
- pass
- ravine
- ridge
- shadow
- shaving
- skeleton
- skin
- slip
- spindleshanks
- streak
- stricture
- strip
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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