hydroscope
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Origin of hydroscope
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Brown had lugged the pneumatic raft down to the shore where he was now pumping it full: I followed with the paddles, pole, and hydroscope.
From Police!!! by Henry Hutt
The former was a hydroscope, who fell into convulsions whenever he passed over running water.
From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
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
At first I scarcely noticed them, supposing them to be vast beds of silvery bottom sand glittering under the electric pencil of the hydroscope.
From Police!!! by Henry Hutt
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
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