Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common starof-Bethlehem, Ornithogalum umbellatum: so called from the tardy opening of the flowers. Compare
four-o'clock .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. See under
star .
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- noun Attributive form of
ten o'clock
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Examples
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That is, I have adopted this attitude until ten-o'clock Monday night when I panic and start to cram everthing I can find into the interstices of my already crammed luggage... but for now my confidence feels good.
Archive 2006-09-01 vorkopers 2006
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That is, I have adopted this attitude until ten-o'clock Monday night when I panic and start to cram everthing I can find into the interstices of my already crammed luggage... but for now my confidence feels good.
We're up to our ears in #@*%!!! (but we're doin' fine... for the most part...) vorkopers 2006
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With a dry rustle and a clearing of the throat, the ancient machinery of the church clock gathered itself and launched into its ten-o'clock strike.
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The story wasn't through playing out in videotape and words breathlessly spoken by a wide-eyed field reporter on the ten-o'clock news, posing outside the ratty soundstage, whose walls were decorated in Technicolor tagging full of gang signs, sexual bragging, and a gallery of misspelled words in two languages, when I pulled over the phone and auto-dialed.
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I looked up to see my client, the man with whom I had a ten-o'clock appointment.
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When the ten-o'clock news aired, it would be a different story.
Laura's Baby Winters, Rebecca 1997
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It was on the ten-o'clock news and then again at eleven, the Double Ready burning like the devil's own bonfire.
Kate Armstrong, Patricia 1995
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The four of us left the office and went down the hall, Kathy prattling about how she and Rob didn't think the new comedian in the ten-o'clock slot was going to work out.
The Shape of Dread Muller, Marcia 1989
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Her trunk had gone to the station, her bag was packed, and everything was ready to catch the ten-o'clock train for New York.
Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves Annie Roe Carr
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Take the ten-o'clock train, and get back as soon as you can.
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