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An instrument for determining the delicacy of the sense of pressure. -- Bar`æs*the`si*o*met"ric, Bar`es*the`si*o*met"ric (#), a.

An aneroid barometer for use with accompanying graphic diagrams and printed directions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles.

An instrument for ascertaining the weight and length of a newborn infant.

e atmospheric pressure. At the sea level its ordinary height is about 30 inches (760 millimeters). See Sympiesometer. Nichol. Aneroid barometer. See Aneroid barometer, under Aneroid. -- Marine barometer, a barometer with tube contracted at bottom to prevent rapid oscillations of the mercury, and suspended in gimbals f…

Pertaining to the barometer; made or indicated by a barometer; as, barometric changes; barometrical observations.

By means of a barometer, or according to barometric observations.

A form of barometer so constructed as to inscribe of itself upon paper a record of the variations of atmospheric pressure.

The art or process of making barometrical measurements.

The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern (Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resembles a lamb; -- called also Scythian lamb.

An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line.

Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea.

The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea.

A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator and an exhausting syringe. Dunglison.

ting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells. Bell metal ore, a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron; the mineral stannite.

To mete. [Obs.] Shak.

nt, discovered by Biela in 1826, which revolves around the sun in 6.6 years. The November meteors (Andromedes or Bielids) move in its orbit, and may be fragments of the comet.

Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.

The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism.

An advocate of bimetallism.

Measurement of life; calculation of the probable duration of human life.