Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The glass tube, hermetically sealed at the top, within which the mercurial column of a barometer is contained.
- noun An area in which the current barometric pressure is decidedly above the normal value for that place and date.
- noun An area in which the current barometric pressure is decidedly below the normal value for that place and date.
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Examples
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At the same moment the professor manipulated another valve, intently watching the barometer-tube meanwhile; and presently it became apparent that the descending movement had ceased, and that the _Flying Fish_ was hanging suspended in mid-air, about a thousand feet below the vast cloud-veil that now obscured the heavens.
With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure Harry Collingwood 1886
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All at once the blood dropped out of her cheeks as the mercury drops from a broken barometer-tube, and she melted away from her seat like an image of snow; a slung-shot could not have brought her down better.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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All at once the blood dropped out of her cheeks as the mercury drops from a broken barometer-tube, and she melted away from her seat like an image of snow; a slung-shot could not have brought her down better.
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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