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A species of divination, by means of an ax or hatchet.

An established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.

Of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; self-evident; characterized by axioms. "Axiomatical truth." Johnson. The stores of axiomatic wisdom. I. Taylor.

By the use of axioms; in the form of an axiom.

An apparatus for measuring or determining the proportion of nitrogen; a nitrometer.

The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.

Measurement of distance or altitude by a staff or staffs.

One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods. Packard.

The thorax of Arthropods. Packard.

A room for balls or dancing.

An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.

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.

re. 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 from an arm or suppor…

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.