Hour

owr, n. Sixty minutes; the time of the day, as indicated by a timepiece; fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; limit of the time appointed for one's regular labor, — as, after hows. pi. (Myth.) Godde es of the seasons, etc. — Hourly, -II, a. Happening or done every hour; occurring every hour; frequent; often repeated; continual. — adv. Every hour; frequently.— Hour'-gla , n. An instrument for measuring time, esp. the interval of an hour, by the running of sand out of a gla ve el. — Hor'o- 3, hSr'o-loj, n. A timepiece of any loge, hSr'o-loj d. — Horolog'ical, -18Vik-al, a. to Pert, to a horologe, or to horology.— 2 Horol'ogy, -it, n. Science of measurtxoux-' ingtime.— Hor'oscope, -skop, w. (Astrol.) An observation of the heavens at the moment of a person's birth, by which astrologers claimed to foretell the events of his life; scheme of 12 houses or signs of the zodiac, into which the circuit of the heavens was divided for such prediction of fortune. A Houri, hoWrT or hoc'rT, n. A nymph of paradise, — so called by Mohammedans.