Definition of "dials" []

• Plural form of dial. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dial. (verb)

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• "A fine hexagonal block with four vertical dials is at Kinross House, and the following information as to the maker was supplied to Mr. Ross: "John Hamilton, mason, servitor to Mr. James Smith, overseer of his Majesty's works, cut the two sun-dials still standing on the walls of the office courts to the right and left of the house, between 14th April and 28th June, 1686.""
• "One of the dials is over the bay window of the banquetting hall, the other over a window near the state rooms, once occupied by Mary, Queen of"
• "In Loggan's "Views of Cambridge," 1675, a cube of dials is represented on the Gate Tower of Caius College."