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Definition of Clepsydra
1. Noun. Clock that measures time by the escape of water.
Definition of Clepsydra
1. n. A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust. in Appendix.
Definition of Clepsydra
1. Noun. A water clock, especially as used in the ancient world. ¹
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Definition of Clepsydra
1. [n -DRAS or -DRAE]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clepsydra
Literary usage of Clepsydra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text Book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1854)
"... and also the velocity with which the water issues, is uniformly retarded, On
this principle is constructed the clepsydra, or water-clock. ..."
2. What to Observe: Or, The Traveller's Remembrancer by Julian R. Jackson (1841)
"TO MAKE A SAND-GLASS, OR A clepsydra. The dial is, of course, ... Nevertheless,
as it may be more convenient in some cases to use a clepsydra or water ..."
3. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"The clepsydra used in the courts of .just ice, however, was, properly speaking,
not a horologium ; but smaller ones, made of glass, and of the same simple ..."
4. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1851)
"clepsydra AND HYDRAULIC ORGANS: Time measured by the nun—Obelisk»—Dial in 9y ...
clepsydra and water organs are not strictly included in the general design ..."
5. Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers by James Donaldson, Alexander Roberts, Allan Menzies, Novatianus (1868)
"Another Method of fixing the Horoscope at Birth—equally futile— Use of the
clepsydra in Astrology—the Predictions of the Chal- ..."
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