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Definition of Clocks

1. Noun. European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage.

Definition of Clocks

1. Noun. (plural of clock) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of clock) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clocks

1. clock [v] - See also: clock

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clocks

Literary usage of Clocks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1858)
"On controlling the Movements of Ordinary clocks li/ Galvanic Currents. By JOHN HARTNUP, FRAS Since the application of electricity to the purposes of the ..."

2. Colonial Furniture in America by Luke Vincent Lockwood (1913)
"XI clocks WE do not consider that clocks technically should be classified as furniture, and still, as there is hardly a collector who does not possess at ..."

3. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"The various Escapements employed in clocks of while being wound. ... Clock-watches to strike the Hours and Quarters in a quarters. similar manner to clocks. ..."

4. A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins by Johann Beckmann (1846)
"This account is in some measure confirmed by Ozanam; for he says expressly, that the first water-clocks were brought from Burgundy to Paris in 1693, ..."

5. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1857)
"from 80000 to 100000 clocks annually, making a total from the two ... The question naturally arises, what shall wo do for low-priced clocks in the future? ..."

6. The Lure of the Antique by Walter Alden Dyer (1910)
"CHAPTER VI SOME OLD clocks MOST writers on old furniture have more or less to say about old clocks, and of course a clock is, in a way, a piece of furniture ..."

7. Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book by Marshall Clagett (1989)
"To this has to be added the well-known inaccuracy of time measurement by water clocks, which must have been the instrument on which the star tables were ..."

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