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hour

Part of Speech: adjective, adverb

Results: 6

            1.                                           Hourly.                                    
Part of Speech: noun

            1.                                           The                                                           twenty-                                                        fourth                                                         part                                                         of                                                           a                                                         day;                                                         sixty                                                           minutes.                                    

            2.                                           The                                                         time                                                         of                                                         the                                                         day,                                                         as                                                         expressed                                                         in                                                         hours                                                         and                                                           minutes,                                                         and                                                         indicated                                                         by                                                           a                                                         timepiece;                                                         as,                                                         what                                                         is                                                         the                                                           hour?                                                         At                                                         what                                                           hour                                                         shall                                                         we                                                         meet?                                    

            3.                                           Fixed                                                         or                                                         appointed                                                         time;                                                           conjuncture;                                                           a                                                         particular                                                         time                                                         or                                                         occasion;                                                         as,                                                         the                                                           hour                                                         of                                                           greatest                                                         peril;                                                         the                                                         man                                                         for                                                         the                                                           hour.                                    

            4.                                           Certain                                                           prayers                                                         to                                                         be                                                         repeated                                                         at                                                           stated                                                         times                                                         of                                                         the                                                         day,                                                         as                                                           matins                                                         and                                                         vespers.                                    

            5.                                             A                                                         measure                                                         of                                                         distance                                                         traveled.

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He would have been in an hour! - "One Maid's Mischief", George Manville Fenn.
He had only returned about an hour before. - "Tom Swift and his Air Glider or, Seeking the Platinum Treasure", Victor Appleton.
Forgive me if I begin with things that seem dead and gone; but they are not, for they live and work in me to this hour. - "The Emperor, Part 2, Volume 9.", Georg Ebers.

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