Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
{Time bill}. Same as {Time-table}. [Eng.]
{Time book}, a book in which is kept a record of the time
persons have worked.
{Time detector}, a timepiece provided with a device for
registering and indicating the exact time when a watchman
visits certain stations in his beat.
{Time enough}, in season; early enough. ``Stanly at Bosworth
field, . . . came time enough to save his life.'' --Bacon.
{Time fuse}, a fuse, as for an explosive projectile, which
can be so arranged as to ignite the charge at a certain
definite interval after being itself ignited.
{Time immemorial}, or {Time out of mind}. (Eng. Law) See
under {Immemorial}.
{Time lock}, a lock having clockwork attached, which, when
wound up, prevents the bolt from being withdrawn when
locked, until a certain interval of time has elapsed.
{Time of day}, salutation appropriate to the times of the
day, as ``good morning,'' ``good evening,'' and the like;
greeting.
{To kill time}. See under {Kill}, v. t.
{To make time}.
(a) To gain time.
(b) To occupy or use (a certain) time in doing something;
as, the trotting horse made fast time.
{To move}, {run}, or {go}, {against time}, to move, run, or
go a given distance without a competitor, in the quickest
possible time; or, to accomplish the greatest distance
which can be passed over in a given time; as, the horse is
to run against time.
{True time}.
(a) Mean time as kept by a clock going uniformly.
(b) (Astron.) Apparent time as reckoned from the transit
of the sun's center over the meridian.
Immemorial \Im`me*mo"ri*al\, a. [Pref. im- not + memorial: cf.
F. imm['e]morial.]
Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition;
indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial.
``Immemorial elms.'' --Tennyson. ``Immemorial usage or
custom.'' --Sir M. Hale.
{Time immemorial} (Eng. Law.), a time antedating (legal)
history, and beyond ``legal memory'' so called; formerly
an indefinite time, but in 1276 this time was fixed by
statute as the begining of the reign of Richard I. (1189).
Proof of unbroken possession or use of any right since
that date made it unnecessary to establish the original
grant. In 1832 the plan of dating legal memory from a
fixed time was abandoned and the principle substituted
that rights which had been enjoyed for full twenty years
(or as against the crown thirty years) should not be
liable to impeachment merely by proving that they had not
been enjoyed before.
Source : WordNet®
time immemorial
n : the distant past beyond memory [syn: {time out of mind}]