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Four-o'clock n.

(Bot.) A plant of the genus Mirabilis. There are about half a dozen species, natives of the warmer parts of America. The common four-o'clock is M. Jalapa. Its flowers are white, yellow, and red, and open toward sunset, or earlier in cloudy weather; hence the name. It is also called marvel of Peru, and afternoon lady.

(Zool.) The friar bird; so called from its cry, which resembles these words.

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"Four-o'clock" Quotes from Famous Books

... back so far as that for your parallel?" suggested I. "It strikes me that we might have found four-o'clock balls ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 78, April, 1864 • Various

... the engine of the four-o'clock Northern express brought but few of the usual loungers to the depot. Only a single passenger alighted, and was driven away in the solitary waiting sleigh toward the Genoa Hotel. And then the train sped away again, with that passionless indifference to human sympathies or curiosity peculiar ...

— Selected Stories • Bret Harte

... will catch the four-o'clock limited to New York. Talon & Trehawke, Attorneys, Temple Court, have on sale a majority of the stock of the Daily Tory. Buy it; notify those in present charge of the editorial and business departments of the new proprietorship. There will be no changes ...

— The President - A novel • Alfred Henry Lewis