A flat plate, board, or similar, forming part of a mechanism, apparatus, or instrument; spec. †(a) the face of a clock or watch (obsolete); †(b) a…

The face of a clock or watch; the (typically flat and circular) surface on which are marked the graduations and figures indicating the hours…

A dial or clock-face; the circle of figures on a dial. Obsolete.

A sharp point; (also) a point marked on a sundial. Obsolete. rare.

The faceplate of a dial, esp. that of a clock, watch, or sundial, on which the hours are marked.

A sundial or plane that slopes backwards from the vertical; a reclining dial.

= dial plate, n. 1a.

One of the surfaces of something having (or conceived as having) two sides, esp. the one generally… The surface or plate which bears the marks…

Of, relating to, or indicating the hours. horary angle = hour-angle n. horary circle: see circle, n. 2 13a; also, the circle of hours on a dial-plate.

(a) the illuminated dial or face of a night clock; (b) an instrument which measures the time at night by means of the moon or stars; = nocturnal, adj.…

Applied to various mechanical contrivances, or artificial structures, of which the whole or the main part works or lies in a horizontal direction.

one of the strokes or marks on a dial-plate indicating the hours.

the dial-plate of a clock or watch, inscribed with figures denoting the hours.

The face or dial of a clock or watch on which the time is displayed, typically bearing a circle of equally spaced markings at which the hand or…

A recess in the face of a dial. Obsolete. rare.