Word Meanings - STORMGLASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.

Related words: (words related to STORMGLASS)

• WEATHERING
  The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
• WEATHERWISER
  Something that foreshows the weather. Derham.
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• CLOUD
  arising from the frequent resemblance of clouds to rocks or hillocks 1. A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, susponded in the upper atmosphere. I do set my bow in the cloud. Gen. ix. 13. Note: A classification of clouds according
• WEATHERBOARDING
  The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
• SENSITIVE
  1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the
• GLASSEN
  Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
• ATMOSPHERICALLY
  In relation to the atmosphere.
• CLOUDINESS
  The state of being cloudy.
• FILLIPEEN
  See PHILOPENA
• FILLIBEG
  A kilt. See Filibeg.
• WEATHER-BIT
  A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
• CLOUDLAND
  Dreamland.
• CLOUD-BURST
  A sudden copious rainfall, as the whole cloud had been precipitated at once.
• FILLETING
  The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work. 2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.
• WEATHER MAP
  A map or chart showing the principal meteorological elements at a given hour and over an extended region. Such maps usually show the height of the barometer, the temperature of the air, the relative humidity, the state of the weather,
• GLASSINESS
  The quality of being glassy.
• GLASSWORT
  A seashore plant of the Spinach family , with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family , both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
• FILLER
  One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling. 'T is mere filer, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter. Dryden. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer.
• GLASS-ROPE
  A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.
• MONSEL'S SOLUTION
  An aqueous solution of Monsel's salt, having valuable styptic properties.
• COINDICATION
  One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
• NONSOLUTION
  Failure of solution or explanation.
• SPYGLASS
  A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
• TORSION INDICATOR
  An autographic torsion meter.
• RESOLUTIONER
  One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century. He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner. Sir W. Scott.
• OVERWEATHER
  To expose too long to the influence of the weather. Shak.