User talk:Nick cool

Ostent as substantive for a unit of time, the sixtieth part of an hour i.e. (more or less) a minute The O E D under the heading `atom III. Of time' has: `According to the table of Papias in Du Cange ... 8 ounces =1 ostent  =1 minute [modern]' but under the heading `ostent' I find no reference to this usage. Perhaps nowhere in _English_ is ostent used as a word for the sixtieth of hour? о. Мартин fr Martin--Nick cool (talk) 02:00, 14 May 2020 (UTC)