A device for measuring time by letting water flow out of a container, usually through a tiny aperture. / A clepsydra.

A normally unreliable person or instrument can occasionally provide correct information, even if only by accident.

A garment, made of strips of cloth, used to bind an infant and restrict movement of its limbs. / (idiomatic) An early period in development, infancy, the beginnings of something; inception.

(obsolete) A dark cloak worn by a mourner at a funeral. / (US) A large butterfly, Nymphalis antiopa, native to Eurasia and North America.

The state of being cloudy (e.g. weather). / The property of being murky (e.g. liquid, style). / The property of being obscure (e.g. information).

A popular aquarium fish, Tanichthys albonubes.

professionally trained bodyguards.

An item of clothing; any item, such as a shirt or a sock, that constitutes clothing.

(poetic) New Zealand.

(philosophy, metaphysics) A universe in which all of the actions of matter and energy operate as reactions according to predetermined rules set down by a creator, like the movements of a clock.