Hourglass

n.

1.

An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower.

Noun

1.

hourglass - a sandglass that runs for sixty minutes

To see an hourglass in your dream, denotes that time is running out for you. This may be a deadline that you have to meet for school or work. Alternatively, it represents a situation that is being turned upside down.abbreviation, astriction, astringency, bottleneck, cervix, circumscription, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, consolidation, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, curtailment, decrease, diminuendo, hourglass figure, isthmus, knitting, narrow place, narrowing, neck, puckering, pursing, reduction, shortening, solidification, stranglement, strangulation, striction, stricture, systole, wasp waist, wrinkling

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