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Webster 1913 Edition
Clock
Clock
(klŏk)
, Verb.
T.
To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking.
Clock
,Noun.
(Zool.)
A large beetle, esp. the European dung beetle (
Scarabæus stercorarius
). Webster 1828 Edition
Clock
CLOCK
, n.1.
A machine, consisting of wheels moved by weights, so constructed that by a uniform vibration of a pendulum, it measures time, and its divisions, hours, minutes and seconds, with great exactness. It indicates the hour by the stroke of a small hammer on a bell.The phrases, what oclock is it? It is nine oclock, seem to be contracted from what of the clock? It is nine of the clock.
2.
A figure or figured work in the ankle of a stocking.CLOCK
,Verb.
T.