Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Baroscope

Baroscope (bar"o*skōp) , noun

[Greek ba`ros weight + -scope: compare French 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.