A kind of portable sun-dial of cylindrical form used in early times.

A sundial or similar instrument which indicates the time of day by means of the shadow of a pointer cast by the sun on to a marked surface.

An instrument used for telling the time outdoors, consisting of a flat surface marked with the hours of the day and a rod or triangular plate of…

Any of various instruments used to measure or indicate the passage of time by non-mechanical means, such as a sundial, a sandglass, or water clock.

A kind of portable sun-dial; = chilindre, n.

A figure or table on which the hours are marked. A dial. Obsolete.

a portable sun-dial adjustable by an attached compass-needle.

A dial for showing the hours of the night by means of moonlight.

A small portable sundial in the form of one or more graduated metal rings.

An ancient kind of sun-dial.

= polar dial n. at polar, adj. n.compounds.

A sundial.

a sundial in which the time is indicated by the position of a spot, esp. a bright spot produced by sunlight shining through a hole or reflected…

a sundial whose gnomon lies in a plane containing the earth's axis.

†(a) a clock constructed to show mean solar time (obsolete rare); (b) a sundial or similar instrument indicating the time of day by means of the…

†(a) = meridian, n. 3c (obsolete); (b) a graduated ring serving as a sundial or used to measure the altitude of the sun at midday.

A sun-dial.

a kind of ring-dial or portable sun-dial.

a set of marks found on the walls of old churches, usually considered to be an ancient form of sundial.