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Hourglass

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Noun

1. hourglass

a sandglass that runs for sixty minutes

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Hourglass

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noun
1. 
a device consisting of two transparent chambers linked by a narrow channel, containing a quantity of sand that takes a specified time to trickle to one chamber from the other
2. (modifier)
well-proportioned with a small waist
an hourglass figure

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Hourglass

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noun
an instrument for measuring time by the trickling of sand, mercury, water, etc. through a small opening from one glass bulb to another below it, in a fixed period of time, esp. one hour

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Hourglass

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n.
An instrument for measuring time, consisting of two glass chambers connected by a narrow neck and containing a quantity of sand, mercury, or another flowing substance that trickles from the upper chamber to the lower in a fixed amount of time, often one hour.
adj.
Shaped like an hourglass: an hourglass design; an hourglass figure.

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