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baroscope |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Baroscope \Bar"o*scope\, n. [Gr. ? weight + -scope: cf F. baroscope.] Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.
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