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noun

clocks n.

European weed naturalized in the southwestern U. S. and Mexico (Erodium cicutarium), having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender pinlike fruits that stick straight up; it is often grown for forage.

Synonyms: redstem storksbill, alfilaria, alfileria, filaree, filaria, pin grass, pin clover, Erodium cicutarium.

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Etymology of 'Clocks'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Clocks" Quotes from Famous Books

... clock strike ten somewhere in the hall, then another somewhere else, and another, and another; the house seemed full of striking clocks. Then in the distance the stable clock chimed in. In another hour they would all be striking eleven, and he would be listening to them as a disgraced outcast, unable to pay, even in part, the wager ...

— The Toys of Peace • Saki

... mean" said Mr. Dooley. "Scales an' clocks ar-re not to be thrusted to decide annything that's worth deciding. Who tells time be a clock? Ivry hour is th' same to a clock an' ivry hour is different to me. Wan long, wan short. There ar-re hours in th' avenin' that pass between two ticks iv th' clock; there ...

— Mr. Dooley Says • Finley Dunne

... all the good days in the year, upon a Christmas eve—old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. It was cold, bleak, biting, foggy weather; and the city clocks had only just gone three, but it ...

— Short Stories Old and New • Selected and Edited by C. Alphonso Smith

... a pause, during which the dealer seemed to weigh this statement incredulously. The ticking of many clocks among the curious lumber of the shop, and the faint rushing of the cabs in a near thoroughfare, filled up the ...

— Short-Stories • Various

... over from yesterday. Such a mind must be a reliably co-ordinated piece of machinery, with a pendulum in place of a heart. It is overawing to average mortals who have not the temerity to say "Nonsense!" to great egos. Yet the best adjusted clocks may have a lapse in a powerful magnetic storm, and in an earthquake they might even be tipped off the shelf, with their metal parts rendered quite as helpless by the fall as those of a human organism subject to the constitutional ...

— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer

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