hydroscope
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It might be said that he divined the course of seams in the depths of the coal mine as a hydroscope reveals springs in the bowels of the earth.
From The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern by Jules Verne
Later I heard him clamping the hood on the hydroscope; but I was too disgusted for any further words, and I dug away at the water with my paddle.
From Police!!! by Henry Hutt
It looks to me through the hydroscope, at this distance, exactly like a tiny, silvery minnow.
From Police!!! by Henry Hutt
He knelt for some time longer, watching the fish, before he resigned the hydroscope to me.
From Police!!! by Henry Hutt
He calls it a hydroscope and describes it as having the form and size of a flute, and graduated in such wise that it can be used for determining the density of liquids.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by John Augustine Zahm
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