Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HOUR'LY
HOUR'LY, a. [our'ly.]
- Happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent; often repeated. Observe the waning moon with hourly view. Dryden.
- Continual. We must live in hourly expectation of having the troops recalled. Swift.
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