| • | Duration, considered independently of any system of
   measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions
   thereof. | 
											
															| • | A particular period or part of duration, whether past,
   present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was,
   or has been; the time is, or will be. | 
											
															| • | The period at which any definite event occurred, or person
   lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the
   time of Queen Elizabeth; -- often in the plural; as, ancient times;
   modern times. | 
											
															| • | The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person
   has at his disposal. | 
											
															| • | A proper time; a season; an opportunity. | 
											
															| • | Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition. | 
											
															| • | Performance or occurrence of an action or event, considered
   with reference to repetition; addition of a number to itself;
   repetition; as, to double cloth four times; four times four, or
   sixteen. | 
											
															| • | The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with
   immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration. | 
											
															| • | Tense. | 
											
															| • | The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of
   movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician
   keeps good time. | 
											
															| • | To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at
   the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly. | 
											
															| • | To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in
   time of movement. | 
											
															| • | To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as,
   to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen. | 
											
															| • | To measure, as in music or harmony. | 
											
															| • | To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time. | 
											
															| • | To pass time; to delay. |