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Curfeu, curfew
Curfeu, curfew [fr. Couvrir, to cover, and feu, Fr., fire], a bell which rang at eight O'clock in the evening, in the time of William the Conquer or, where upon everyone was obliged by law to...
Racktail
arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock
Scape wheel
The wheel in an escapement as of a clock or a watch into the teeth of which the pallets play
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Regularly
to say, one made at regular times or intervals. The regularity contemplated may not be a punctuality, of clock-like precision and exactitude, but it must reasonably conform with substantial proximity to the sequence of times or intervals
Day
Day [fr. dies, Lat.; tag, Germ.], in its largest sense the time of a whole apparent revolution of the sun round the earth, but , in its popular acceptation, that part of the twenty-four hours when...
Fixtures
or ceiling; fixed tables, furnances and coppers, mash-tubs, and fixed water-tubs; coffee and malt-mills; cupboards fixed with hold-fasts; clock cases, iron ovens, and the like; provided the separation occasion but little or no damage. The fixtures must
Gaming or gambling
Gaming or gambling, the playing any game of chance, as cards, dice, etc., for money, or money's worth. The still unrepealed 33 Hen. 8, c. 9, prohibits the keeping of any common house for dice, cards,...
Noting
Noting, when a promissory note or bill of exchange has been dishonoured by non-acceptance or non-payment, the holder may cause such dishonour to be noted by a notary public upon the instrument, or upon a paper...
Hydraulic
Of or pertaining to hydraulics or to fluids in motion conveying or acting by water as an hydraulic clock crane or dock
mainspring
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
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