Crossword-Solution: HIPP 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Says BOTTOM to the fairy COBWEB in "Midsummer Night's Dream:"-- "Mounsieur Cobweb; good mounsieur, get you your weapons in your hand, and kill me a red-hipp'd humble-bee on the top of a thistle, and, good mounsieur, bring me the honey-bag." This command might be executed in this country, for we have the "red-hipp'd humble-bee;" and we have the thistle, and there is no more likely place to look for the humblebee in midsummer than on a thistle-blossom.

The rate of fall of the plate is so nearly constant that this instrument furnishes an accurate standard time with which Hipp readings may be compared, and in accordance with which the Hipp may be regulated.

This period, 125[sigma], was taken as a standard, and each hour, before the beginning of reaction-time experiments, the time of the plate's fall was measured ten times with the Hipp, and for any variation of the average thus obtained from 125[sigma], the standard, the necessary corrections were made by changing the position of the chronoscope springs or the strength of the current.

The clock used for exact work is likely to be the Hipp chronoscope, which gives on its dials indications of time intervals in thousandths of a second.

What would he more, But Beards of Mice, _an Ewt's_ stew'd thigh, _A pickled maggot and a dry Hipp, with a_ Red cap worm, that's shut Within the concave of a Nut Brown as his tooth, _and with the fat And well-boiled inchpin of a Bat.