Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Hour \Hour\, n. [OE. hour, our, hore, ure, OF. hore, ore, ure, F. heure, L. hora, fr. Gr. ?, orig., a definite space of time, fixed by natural laws; hence, a season, the time of the day, an hour. See {Year}, and cf. {Horologe}, {Horoscope}.] 1. The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes. [1913 Webster] 2. The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet? [1913 Webster] 3. Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour. [1913 Webster] Woman, . . . mine hour is not yet come. --John ii. 4. [1913 Webster] This is your hour, and the power of darkness. --Luke xxii. 53. [1913 Webster] 4. pl. (R. C. Ch.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers. [1913 Webster] 5. A measure of distance traveled. [1913 Webster] Vilvoorden, three hours from Brussels. --J. P. Peters. [1913 Webster] {After hours}, after the time appointed for one's regular labor. {Canonical hours}. See under {Canonical}. {Hour angle} (Astron.), the angle between the hour circle passing through a given body, and the meridian of a place. {Hour circle}. (Astron.) (a) Any circle of the sphere passing through the two poles of the equator; esp., one of the circles drawn on an artificial globe through the poles, and dividing the equator into spaces of 15[deg], or one hour, each. (b) A circle upon an equatorial telescope lying parallel to the plane of the earth's equator, and graduated in hours and subdivisions of hours of right ascension. (c) A small brass circle attached to the north pole of an artificial globe, and divided into twenty-four parts or hours. It is used to mark differences of time in working problems on the globe. {Hour hand}, the hand or index which shows the hour on a timepiece. {Hour line}. (a) (Astron.) A line indicating the hour. (b) (Dialing) A line on which the shadow falls at a given hour; the intersection of an hour circle which the face of the dial. {Hour plate}, the plate of a timepiece on which the hours are marked; the dial. --Locke. {Sidereal hour}, the twenty-fourth part of a sidereal day. {Solar hour}, the twenty-fourth part of a solar day. {The small hours}, the early hours of the morning, as one o'clock, two o'clock, etc. {To keep good hours}, to be regular in going to bed early. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: hour n 1: a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour" [syn: {hour}, {hr}, {60 minutes}] 2: clock time; "the hour is getting late" [syn: {hour}, {time of day}] 3: a special and memorable period; "it was their finest hour" 4: distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away" [syn: {hour}, {minute}]