weather-glassn.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §27 Cold..doth manifestly Condense; As wee see in the Contracting of the Aire in the Weather-Glasse.

1634 J. Bate Myst. Nature & Art 28 A Weather~glasse is a structure of, at the least, two glasses, sometimes of three, foure, or more, as occasion serueth, inclosing a quantity of water, and a portion of ayre proportionable, by whose condensation or rarifaction the included water is subject unto a continuall motion, either upward or downward; by which motion of the water is commonly foreshewn the state, change, and alteration of the weather.

a1642 J. Suckling Brennoralt (1646) ii. i. 19 His colour..sanke downe, As water in a weather-glasse Prest by a warme hand.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ 257 For the true discovery of the nature and temper of the Air, as to its density or rarity, we have not met with a more certain or compleat invention than the Weather-glass.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ 259 The Weather-glass or Thermoscope.

1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. iv. ii. 36 As in some wether-glass my Love I hold; Which falls or rises with the heat or cold.

1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 205 A tender Weather-Glass or Thermometer.

1722 Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 117 Two Thermometers, the one the common seal'd Weather~glass, having no Communication with the outward Air, wherein the temper as to Heat and Cold was shewn by the swelling or shrinking of the included Spirit.

1695 London Gaz. No. 3103/4 A Portable Barometer, or Weather-Glass.

1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 220. ⁋3 Toricellius, the Inventor of the common Weather Glass.

1758 T. Warton Idler 2 Dec. 273 Weather rainy. Consulted my weather-glass.

1858 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-Na-Fuosich ii. 277 The weather-glass, say they, rising.

1885 New Bk. Sports 23 There is no trusting the weather-glass among the Highland hills.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 276 I shall onely refer you to the Polititians Weather-glasse, whereby he not onely foreseeth (but discerneth aright when fallen) the unseasonable weather of his respective Place he liveth in.

1681 T. D'Urfey Progress Honesty xiv. 17 His Bone's his Weather-Glass, and his Back Is his perpetual Almanack.

1742 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 24 June My uncle, who is my political weather-glass, and whose quicksilver rises and falls with the least variation of parliamentary weather.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. xcix. 367 When the weather-glass of my pride got up again, I found I had gone too far to recede.

1864 G. A. Lawrence Maurice Dering II. 80 Besides, I'm not at all sure that he was losing heavily: his own face is a bad weather-glass.

1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 47 Pimpernel, dreading nights and showers, Oft call'd ‘the Shepherd's Weather-glass’.

1836 J. T. Mackay Flora Hibern. i. 194 Common Pimpernel, or Poor Man's Weatherglass.

1872 C. Rossetti Sing Song 86 Scarlet shepherd's-weatherglass Spreads wide open at her feet.