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Breviary :: Breviary (n.) A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal..

Idle :: Idle (superl.) Not called into active service; not turned to appropriate use; unemployed; as, idle hours..

Horary :: Horary (a.) Of or pertaining to an hour; noting the hours.

Horal :: Horal (a.) Of or pertaining to an hour, or to hours..

Horologe :: Horologe (n.) A servant who called out the hours.

Flow :: Flow (v. i.) To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours..

Leisure :: Leisure (a.) Unemployed; as, leisure hours..

Tide :: Tide (prep.) The period of twelve hours.

Statedly :: Stated (a.) Recurring at regular time; not occasional; as, stated preaching; stated business hours..

Dissipation :: Dissipation (n.) A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness..

Tierce :: Tierce (n.) The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour..

Tide :: Tide (prep.) The alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, and of bays, rivers, etc., connected therewith. The tide ebbs and flows twice in each lunar day, or the space of a little more than twenty-four hours. It is occasioned by the attraction of the sun and moon (the influence of the latter being three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium. A high tide upon one side of the earth is accompanied

Complin :: Complin (n.) The last division of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset..

Nycthemeron :: Nycthemeron (n.) The natural day and night, or space of twenty-four hours..

Dogwatch :: Dogwatch (n.) A half watch; a watch of two hours, of which there are two, the first dogwatch from 4 to 6 o'clock, p. m., and the second dogwatch from 6 to 8 o'clock, p. m..

Trihoral :: Trihoral (a.) Occurring once in every three hours.

Spell :: Spell (n.) The time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days, or weeks..

Semidiurnal :: Semidiurnal (a.) Pertaining to, or accomplished in, half a day, or twelve hours; occurring twice every day..

Chime :: Chime (n.) A set of bells musically tuned to each other; specif., in the pl., the music performed on such a set of bells by hand, or produced by mechanism to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions..

Almanac :: Almanac (n.) A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc..

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