Preface - Terms and Time
The Hour names are based on Middle English and are part of the Divine Office.
-Lauds - Roughly 3am
-Prime - 6am
-Terce - 9am
-Sixt - Noon
-None(nonce) - 3pm
-Vespers - 6pm
-Compline - 9pm
-Matins - Midnight
Bell Names
-Angelus - a carol played before 6 pm Vespers
-De Profundus - a carol played before 9 pm Compline
-Death Knell - For a Male three sets of 3 bells, for a Female three sets of 2 bells, followed by a single bell for each year of age.
Moon Names are based on American Indian and Settler names.
-Flowers - May
-Strawberry - June
-Thunder - July
-Grain - August
Measures
-Candlemark - 1 hour roughly. The time required for a 2 inch tallow candle to burn down 1 inch.
-Hand - 4 inches so when Titan is 18 and 3 or 18-3, he is 18 hands and 3 inches. A hand is traditionally a flat hand, thumb laid along the edge, and the total width is a hand. The last joint of a thumb is the Inch.
-Stone - For livestock and people 1 stone is 14 pounds(6.36kg) So Titans 145 stone is about 2000 pounds, large but not unusual for a Percheron.
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