† weather-wisern.
Obsolete.
An instrument serving to foretell the weather.
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1667 T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. 255 Several Discourses about Thermometers, Hygroscopes, Baroscopes, and other Weather-wisers.
1676 J. Glanvill Ess. iii. 40 He hath there given an account of the defectiveness of common Weather-Glasses,..and Ascent of Water by Cold in the ordinary Weather-wisers.
1708 R. Neve Baroscopologia 4 By which means it is now become an excellent Weather-wiser, to predict dry and moist Weather.
1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 152 The flowers of pimpernel; the opening and shutting of which..are the countryman's weather-wiser, whereby he tells the weather of the following day.
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