Timepiece Glossary

Timepiece Glossary

timepiece

Technically, an mechanism for measuring time and not necessarily perfectly synonymous with either clock or watch.

horologist

A person who repairs clocks, watches and other timepieces.

foreboding

A premonition of ominous misgiving.

specter

A ghosty, usually menacing, apparition.

mystified

Puzzled or perplexed; bewildered and baffled.

pilgrimage

Traveling, usually long distance--to a place--typically located in foreign land--to express reverence or experience the unknown.

oracle

Someone or something viewed as an unerring authority endowed with the power to peer into the future.

bequeathed

To pass something of value onto someone else, usually a person of the next generation.

cacophony

A loud, irritating, dissonant intermingling of various sounds, notes, chords or pitches.

delineate

To mark a line of division; to demarcate.

dumbstruck

Astonished and amazed; flabbergasted; blown away.

ashen

Pale, washed-out, ghosty or wan in appearance.

mantel

The framing--usually decorative--constructed around the opening of a fireplace.

refinement

Possessing qualities deemed culturally desirable in manners in elegance.

sardonically

Done with great scorn and disdain.

consternation

A feeing of anxious alarm and nervous worry.

pandemonium

A state of raucous anarchy; a chaotic hullaballoo.

mortician

Undertaker; a person who prepares a corpse for a funeral.

antiquities

Relics from the past.

mundane

Commonplace, ordinary and dull.

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