stormglass

English

Etymology

storm +‎ glass

Noun

stormglass (plural stormglasses)

1. A kind of barometer containing a solution that turns cloudy to indicate rain or snow.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stormglass”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)