Horologe

hor′o-lōj, n. any instrument for telling the hours.— ns. Horol′oger , Horologiog′rapher , Horol′ogist , a maker of clocks, .— adjs. Horolog′ic , -al .— ns. Horologiog′raphy , the art of constructing timepieces; Horol′ogy , the science which treats of the construction of machines for telling the hours: the office-book of the Greek Church for the canonical hours. [O. Fr. horologe (Fr. horloge )—L. horologium —Gr. hōrologion — hōra , an hour, legein , to tell.]