Baumé

[ boh-mey, boh-mey ]

/ boʊˈmeɪ, ˈboʊ meɪ /

Antoine, 1728–1804, French chemist and inventor.

pertaining to, noting, or calibrated according to a Baumé scale.

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First recorded in 1835–45

A physician writes asking for the formula of Baume Analgsique Bengu.
The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2|Various
Mr. Baume says he has practised his method with considerable success during twenty years.
The Aural System|Anonymous
Yet it was to the Ste. Baume that Muriel had gone, and that she had written to her husband.
Running Sands|Reginald Wright Kauffman
He got into a carriage with me, and I told the coachman to take us to the "Ste. Baume" inn.
The Memoires of Casanova, Complete|Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Mr. Baume, will, I think find the difficulties he mentions to disappear, if the pupil prepare himself as I have prescribed.
The Aural System|Anonymous

Baumé

[ bō-mā′ ]

Antoine 1728-1804

French pharmacist who invented a process for making sal ammonia and in 1768 devised an improved hydrometer using the scale that now bears his name.