Baroscope

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Baroscope \Bar"o*scope\ (b[a^]r"[-o]*sk[=o]p), n. [Gr. ba`ros
     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.
     [1913 Webster] Baroscopic