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hour·glass  (ourgls)
n.
An instrument for measuring time, consisting of two glass chambers connected by a narrow neck and containing a quantity of sand, mercury, or another flowing substance that trickles from the upper chamber to the lower in a fixed amount of time, often one hour.
adj.
Shaped like an hourglass: an hourglass design; an hourglass figure.
hourglass
Noun
a device consisting of two transparent sections linked by a narrow channel, containing a quantity of sand that takes an hour to trickle from one section to the other
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Noun1.hourglasshourglass - a sandglass that runs for sixty minutes
sandglass - timepiece in which the passage of time is indicated by the flow of sand from one transparent container to another through a narrow passage
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