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an ancient device that measured time by marking the regulated flow of water through a small opening. also called water glass.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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A water clock, especially as used in the ancient world.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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A device for measuring time by the amount of water discharged from a vessel through a small aperture, the quantity discharged in a given unit of time, as an hour, being first determined.
2. A chemical vessel.
3. [capitalized] [nl.] in zoology, a genus of mollusks; the watering-pot shells: now called aspergillum.
2. A chemical vessel.
3. [capitalized] [nl.] in zoology, a genus of mollusks; the watering-pot shells: now called aspergillum.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia