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A machine for measuring time indicating the hour and other divisions in ordinary mechanical clocks for domestic or office use the time is indicated on a typically circular face or dial plate containing two hands pointing to numbers engraved on the periphery of the face thus showing the hours and minutes The works of a mechanical clock 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 In electrical or electronic clocks the time may be indicated as on a mechanical clock by hands but may also be indicated by direct digital readout with the hours and minutes in normal Arabic numerals The readout using hands is often called analog to distinguish it from the digital readout Some clocks also indicate the seconds Clocks are not adapted like the watch to be carried on the person Specialized clocks such as atomic clocks may be constructed on different principles and may have a very high precision for use in scientific observa...
Eggs
Eggs. Of Poultry.--For hatching: importation may be regulated by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries by 25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 31. As to marking and grade designation marks, see 18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 19, and sale of eggs under that designation, 23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 40, and see ANIMALS.Of Game.--The destruction or taking of or possessing eggs of any kind of game, or swan, wild duck, teal, or widgeon, by any person not having the right of killing game upon the land is punishable on conviction before two justices with a fine of 5s. for every egg, by s. 24 of the Game Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 32). See GAME, and Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Game.' As to larceny of pheasants' eggs, see R. v. Stride, (1908) 1 KB 617.Of Wild Birds.--On application by a county council, a Secretary of State may prohibit, by s. 2 of the (English) Wild Birds Protection Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 24), the taking or destroying of eggs of wild birds or of any kind of wild birds, and by an Act of 1902 (e Edw. 7, c. 6), th...
egg and dart
a decorative ovolo molding having a series of egg shaped figures alternating with another shape in the form of a dart or anchor Also used attributively as an egg and dart molding an egg and dart design Called also egg and dart and egg and tongue...
clocking
the time taken to traverse a measured course as it was a world record clocking...
Egg glass
A small sandglass running about three minutes for marking time in boiling eggs also a small glass for holding an egg at table...
Scrambled eggs
Eggs of which the whites and yolks are stirred together while cooking or eggs beaten slightly often with a little milk and stirred while cooking...
cocks eggs
a weedy vine of Argentina Salpichroa organifolia having solitary white flowers followed by egg shaped white or yellow fruit...
deviled egg
a hard boiled egg sliced into halves and with the yolk removed and replaced with a paste usually made from the yolk and mayonnaise seasoned with salt andor spices such as paprika...
egg and anchor
same as egg and dart...
egg and tongue
same as egg and dart...
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