Adjacent Words
To mean businessTo measure swords with one
To meddle and make
To meet half way
To meet with
To milk a telegram
To milk the street
To mill chocolate
To mind one's chances
To misconduct one's self
To miss stays
To monkey with
To morrow
To mount a play
To mount guard
To muffle the oars
To muster troops into service
To muster troops out of service
To muster up
To my hand
To nail
To name
To nip in the bud
to no degree
To no effect
To note a bill
To nurse billiard balls
To offend against
to one ear
To one's beard
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Time bill. Same as Time-table. [Eng.] Time book, a book in which is kept a record of the time persons have worked. Time detector, a timepiece provided with a device for registering and indicating the exact time when a watchman visits certain stations in his beat. Time enough, in season; early enough. ``Stanly at Bosworth field, . . . came time enough to save his life.'' --Bacon. Time fuse, a fuse, as for an explosive projectile, which can be so arranged as to ignite the charge at a certain definite interval after being itself ignited. Time immemorial, or Time out of mind. (Eng. Law) See under Immemorial. Time lock, a lock having clockwork attached, which, when wound up, prevents the bolt from being withdrawn when locked, until a certain interval of time has elapsed. Time of day, salutation appropriate to the times of the day, as ``good morning,'' ``good evening,'' and the like; greeting. To kill time. See under Kill, v. t. To make time. (a) To gain time. (b) To occupy or use (a certain) time in doing something; as, the trotting horse made fast time. To move, run, or go, against time, to move, run, or go a given distance without a competitor, in the quickest possible time; or, to accomplish the greatest distance which can be passed over in a given time; as, the horse is to run against time. True time. (a) Mean time as kept by a clock going uniformly. (b) (Astron.) Apparent time as reckoned from the transit of the sun's center over the meridian.
