time 
Stanley at Bosworth-neld came time emnujh to save his 
life. Bacon. 
Time immemorial. See time out of wind. Time of 
day. (a) Greeting ; salutation appropriate to the time 
of the day, as "good morning " or "good evening." 
Not worth the time of day. Shak., Pericles, iv. 3. 35. 
(i>) The latest aspect of affairs. [Slang. ] Time of flight. 
See fliijhti.Time out of mind, or time immemorial. 
(a) For an indefinitely long period of time past ; in law, 
time beyond legal memory that is, the time prior to the 
reign of Richard I. (1189). 
There hath byn, tyme owt of mynde, a ffree scole kept 
within the said Oitie, in a grete halle belongyng to the 
said Ouylde, called the Trynite halle. 
English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 205. 
The joiner squirrel or old grub, 
Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers. 
Shak., E. and J., i. 4. 69. 
(6) For an indefinitely long period. 
The Walnut-trees [in New England) are tougher than 
ours, and last time out of mind. 
S. Clarice, Four Chiefest Plantations (1670). 
Time policy. See policy*. to beat time. See beati. 
6342 
timely 
since the adoption of standard time in the United States, 
the dropping of the time-ball at Washington, New York, 
and Boston indicates the time of mean noon on the 75th 
meridian west of Greenwich. 
time-bargain (tim'bar"gan), . A contract for 
the sale or purchase of merchandise, or of 
stock, at a future time. These bargains are often timelessly (thn'les-li), adv. 
mere gambling transactions, carried on from time to time ner. (a) Unseasonably, 
by the payment of the difference between the stipulated 
price and the actual price on the day fixed for the pre- 
tended delivery of the stock or goods, the party buying 
having no intention of taking over either, and the party 
selling not possessing what he professes to sell. 
In the intention of the writers of these nymns [the 
Psalms] there can generally be no doubt that it [Messiah] 
refers to the king then on the throne, or, in hymns of more 
general and timeless character, to the Davidic king as such 
(without personal reference to one king). 
Encyc. Brit., XVI. 53. 
In a timeless man- 
O fairest flower, no sooner blown hut blasted. 
Soft silken primrose, fading timelessly. 
Milton, On the Death of a Fair Infant, 1. 2. 
(6) Without reference to time. 
. Timelia (tl-me'li-ji), n. [NL. (Sundevall, 1872), 
A curious example of legal evasion is furnished by time 
time-beguiling 
the time pass quickly. 
A summer's day will seem an hour but short, 
Being wasted in such time-beguiling sport. 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 24. 
. . . 
To be master of one's time, to have leisure; be t,i7np-r>f>t,tjriTiir CHrn'hpt / '^7- i 
leases. -To come to , ,, t ? 
tn 
able to spend one's time as one p] 
time. See come. To fill time. See ./!!. To i keep 
time, (o) To record time: as, the watch keeps good 
time, (b) In music, to beat, mark, or observe the rhythmic 
accents. 
Music do I hear? 
Ha, ha ! keep time ; how sour sweet music is, 
When time is broke and no proportion kept ! 
Shak., Rich. II., v. 5. 42. 
ut? 
the state of things ; full of innovations. ^Rare.] 
Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering days. 
Shak., Sonnets, Ixxxii. 
time-bewasted (tim'be-was"ted), a. 
by time ; consumed. [Rare.] 
My oil-dried lamp and time-bewasted light. 
Shak., Rich. II., I. 3. 221. 
Used up 
advantageoftheopportunltyKffordedbJanyconjdnctu're" lame-DOOR (tim'buk), . A book in which is 
delay. kept a record of the time persons have worked. 
time-candle (tim'kan'dl), . A candle care- 
fully made so that it will always burn an equal 
length in a given time, and marked or fitted 
with a scale so as to serve as a measure of time. 
time-card (tim'kard), n. 1. A card having a 
time-table printed upon it. 2. A card con- 
taining blank spaces for name, date, and hour, 
L . i /in T . . 
The earl lost no time, but marched day and night. 
Clarendon,. 
(b) To go too slow : as, a watch or clock loses time. To 
arki. TO pass the time of day. 
to be filled up by workmen and given to the 
way for the space of time considered. To take time by 
the forelocfc. See forelocks. TO walk, run, row, or 
go against time, to walk, run, row, or go, as a horse, 
a runner, or a crew, as rapidly as possible, in order to as- , , 
certain the greatest speed attainable, or the greatest dis- timekeeper on their beginning work. 
tance which can be passed over in a given time, or to snr- time-detector (tim de-tek"tor), n. A watch or 
purpi 
time 
versal time, 
Timelia fileata. 
giving name to the Timeliidee: also called Na- 
podes (Cabanis, laid). It has been used with the 
least possible discrimination. The type is T. pileaia of 
Nepal, Sikhim, Burma, Cochin-China, the Malay peninsula, 
and Java. This and one other species, T. longirostris, now 
compose the genus in its strictest sense. Jt. B. Sharpe. 
ttmeliae (tl-me'li-e), n. pi. [NL., pi. of Time- 
Ma.] A section of TimeUidse, regarded as the 
most representative of that so-called family, 
with about 30 genera. K. B. Sharpe. 
Time- 
like 
a Timelia, 
=Syn. 2. Term, while, interval. timeful (tim'ful), a. [< ME. tymeful; < timei + 
r m ?fJ l m JL!''[?f? t-a d P,?- '"'^..Ppr-. </. -/'] Seasonable; timely; sufficiently early. 
, y numer- 
ous genera and various sections, a good many unquestion- 
ably belong to recognized families, as Turdidte, Sylviidir, 
Troglodytidie, etc. A loose English name of the group, 
&WteiftST s Ba : ^^^^'' = ^^^'^ a:rwSeSBK3a 
,^'1^1:,! m , 6 ^J( mf r' "V < Cf - f '* 1 ' hm " U ' return tow "2;SSi , . 8 ? e , **^. Srachypodin^ Lto/rfrttt*. Sf Tto-K., 
., happen, < tide*, n., time.) In later uses the 
thir 
, however . by rightly timing his second and 
throw, at length won the race. 
Raleigh (Arber's Eng. Gamer, I. 199). 
fuse calculated to 
See fuse 2 . 
_ . . horol., a globe 
mounted above a clock, and arranged to turn, 
, , 
and cuts under Pnoepyga, Tesia, and Timelia. Also called 
Timalida. 
I consider It impossible to divide the birds hitherto re- 
ferred or allied to the typical Timeliidie into well-defined 
or definable groups. 
B. B. Sharpe, Cat. Timeliida;, British Museum, p. 1. 
This Piece of Mirth is so well tiined that the severest 
Critick can have nothing to say against it. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 279. 
2. To regulate as to time. 
To the same purpose old Epopeus spoke 
Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke. 
Addison, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., iii 
as, to time the speed of a horse; to time a race. 
4. To measure, as in music or harmony. 
II. intrans. 1. To waste time; defer;" pro- 
crastinate. [Rare.] 
''Bacon Phvsical Fables ?>y means of connections with the clock, once timeliine (ti-mel'i-in). a. [< Timelia + -i'tie* 
vacon, i-njBical fables, iv. m twentv-four hours : designed tnshnwtlin timu !, - v,~i : ' . ^. L \,,.. "w. 
in twenty-four hours: designed to show the time Related or belonging to the TimelUdss ' 
ySI^S^SKSSSA ^qt: ?* - *i "* 
tor, and marked with the hours and minutes. & B. Sharpe, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus. (1881), VI. 301. 
time-gun (tim'gun), . A gun fired as a signal timeliness (tim'li-nes), n. The state or prop- 
atattxed hour of the day, or at the time set for erty of being timely ; seasonableness; the being 
,._., .... any enterprise or undertaking. in good time. 
He [the farmer] is a slow person, timed to nature, and time-honored (tlm'on"ord), a. Honored for timelingt (tim'line) [~< time* + -linai 1 A 
not to city watches. Emerson, Farming, a long time ; venerable and worthy of honor by time-server [Rare] 
? * SCe 5, tain the , time, duration, or rate of : J e **?* antiquity and long continuance : as, They also cruelly compel divers of the ministers which 
nmt-nonoiea custom. are faint-hearted, and were, as it seemeth, but timelings, 
Where posterity retains serving rather the time (as the manner of the worldings 
Some vein of that old minstrelsy which breath'd J?' tnan marrying in Thy fear, to do open penance before 
Through each time-honour'd grove of British oak ne P e P le - Beam, Works, III. 235. (Davies.) 
Mason, Poems (ed. 1774), p. 90. time-lock (tim'lok), . See tocfcl. 
. See timist, 1. timely (tim'li), a. [< ME. timely, tymely, tymli. 
ambassadors of Henry II. to the Pope] timed it 
' , and a great part of the next Sommer; 
- -------- ^-.,, -. B ,.ui. . oonuoe,. . . . . , . . , , , 
when, although they could give the King no great security' timefceeper (tim'ke"per), . One who or that timely, seasonable (= Icel. tlmaliqr = Sw. tim- 
et th ~ u: -' 
, secury 
yet they advertise him of hope. Daniel, Hist. Eng., p. 95. 
2. To keep time ; harmonize. 
Beat, happy stars, timing with things below. 
which marks, measures, or records time, (a) A 
clock, watch, or chronometer. (b) One who marks or beats 
time in music, (c) One who notes and records the time at 
which something takes place, or the time occupied in some 
Tennyson, Maud, xviii. 8. action or operation, or the number of hours of work done by 
3. ID fencing, to make a thrust upon an open- .p" ", ' " number of workmen, 
mg occurring by an inaccurate or wide motion tlmele SS (tim les), a. [< timel + -less.] 1. Un- 
of the opponent. 
time 2 t, . An obsolete spelling of thyme. 
time-alarm (tira'a-larm"), n. A contrivance 
for sounding an alarm at a set time, in a gen- 
22^J*!?t!**. * tlme-alarm; in alpe 
seasonable; inopportune; untimely. 
Some untimely thought did instigate 
His all-too-timeless speed. Shak., Lucrece, 1. 44. 
And by this man, the easy husband, 
Pardoned ; whose timeless bounty makes him now 
Stand here. B. Jon 
Kg = Dan. timelig, temporal) ; < titnei + -fyl.] 1. 
Seasonable ; opportune ; just in time ; in good 
time. 
The Secund day suyng, sais me the lyne, 
The Troiens full tymli tokyn the feld. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 9629. 
( 'loi in, come forth, and do a timely grace 
To a poor swain. 
Fletcher, Faithful Shepherdess, v. 5. 
I also give my Pilgrims timely help. 
Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, p. 245. 
2f. Early. 
"2 h he J 6 -i? JS a 1 pl , i , ed to a device for ^"usinra TT T ^ B ' JOnWn ' VOlP ne ' 1V " * And tnert <"-. ^vyng your better avice I had lever ye 
ftaajrs&Ssj? 1 * p ^! tc - ? E^S^ ^ time etemai > s - ^^ ^ ^^ * ^Xf'm 
, 
time-attack (tim'a-tak"), 
thrust. 
Same as time- 
time-ball (tim'bal), n. A ball dropped sudden- 
ly from the top of a staff prominently placed, 
as on the top of an observatory or of a church 
spire, for the purpose of indicating some exact 
moment of mean time previously 3 determined 
~ '*' T g thilt ln geneml US6 in 
and noon ,n the United States. 
terminable. 
This ground, which is corrupted with their steps, 
Shall be their timeless sepulchre or mine. 
Marlmce. Edward II., i. 2. 
Timeless night and chaos. 
Young, Night Thoughts, ii. 222. 
words, that which is timeless and immutable is 
it times at different stages of development. 
Mind, IX. 85. 
3. Referring to no particular time ; undated. 
weke to late. Paston Letters, I. 338. 
Happy were I in my timely death, 
Could all my travels warrant me they live. 
Shak.,C. of E., i. 1.139. 
3f. Passing, as time. 
A Dial! told the timely howres. Spenser, F. Q., I. iv. 4. 
4f. Keeping time or measure. 
And many Bardes, that to the trembling chord 
Can tune their timely voices cunningly. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. v. 3. 
