List of synonyms from "hound" to synonyms from "housekeeper"
Discover all the synonyms available for the terms hour of decision, house of prayer, house of God, house of correction, house-sitter, housecleaner and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the synonyms associated with it.
- Hound
- Hound dog
- Hounding
- Hour of decision
- Hourglass
- House
- House of correction
- House of detention
- House of God
- House of Lords
- House of Peers
- House of prayer
- House of worship
- House-sitter
- House trailer
- Housebound
- Housecleaner
- Housecoat
- Household
- Household effects
- Household help
- Household possessions
- Householder
- Housekeeper
Definition of the day : « hourglass »
- As in chronometer : noun watch
- As in timepiece : noun device that tells time
- As in clock : noun timekeeping device
- The marble was but roughly hewn, in lines that held the suggestion of an hourglass.
- Extract from : « A Bookful of Girls » by Anna Fuller
- There is a good oak pulpit, with hourglass holder, and some heavy 15th-cent.
- Extract from : « Somerset » by G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade
- To calculate it one must reckon a century for every turn of the hourglass.
- Extract from : « John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 10 (of 10) » by John L. Stoddard
- At the sound the bearded old man raises his sceptre, opens his mouth, and turns an hourglass.
- Extract from : « Christopher and the Clockmakers » by Sara Ware Bassett
- I think an hourglass running out would help the notion; perhaps her little tilings upon his knee, or in his hand.
- Extract from : « The Letters of Charles Dickens » by Charles Dickens
- The latter had an hourglass on his head, and in his hand a scythe, with which he aimed a blow at Mercury's feet.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions » by Charles Mackay
- The hourglass figure can of course be construed as the "filled-in angle" enlarged.
- Extract from : « Mohave Pottery » by Alfred L. Kroeber
- It seems to refer to paired crossing lines as part of hourglass figures.
- Extract from : « Mohave Pottery » by Alfred L. Kroeber
- Sometimes it will be nearly globular, again long and thin, or it may be constricted like an hourglass.
- Extract from : « The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide » by Augusta Foote Arnold
- All refused to answer her inquiries, but one of them, with a sinister smile, placed the hourglass and skull beside her.
- Extract from : « The Lancashire Witches » by William Harrison Ainsworth