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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 809 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HOUR , the twenty-See also:

FOURTH

fourth See also:

PART

part of a See also:

CIVIL

civil See also:

day, the twelfth part of a natural day or See also:

NIGHT

night, a space of See also:

time of sixty minutes' duration . The word is derived through the O . Fr. ure, ore, houre, mod. heure, from See also:

LAT

Lat. hora, Gr . 6pa, See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season, time of day, hour (see See also:

CALENDAR

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