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Date "WEATHER-GLASS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Weather-glass (The Peasant's) or "Poor man's warning." The scarlet pimpernel, which closes its petals at the approach of rain. "Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel: `Twill surely rain; I see with sorrow, Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow." Dr. Jenner. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Page 11, beginning of Chapter 1 of: An historical and philosophical account of the barometer, or weather-glass.... by Edward Saul, published in 1735. Library Call Number QC876 .S38 1735. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
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| Language | Translations for "WEATHER-GLASS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ilmapuntari (barometer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eather-glassway барометр (aneroid, barometer, barrometer, glass, rain glass, rain-glass, weatherglass). (various references) phong vũ biểu (rain-glass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: weatherglass. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-g-h-l-r-s-s-t-w" | |
-3 letters: glassware, heartless, seawaters, stealages, teargases, waterages, waterless, wheatears. | |
-4 letters: agrestal, aweather, eelgrass, elastase, gastreas, gateless, gearless, halteres, harslets, heatless, hetaeras, largesse, leathers, reslates, restages, rewashes, seawares, seawater, shelters, slathers, stealage, stealers, swathers, sweaters, swelters, tearless, teawares, thawless, thewless, trehalas, wageless, warstles, wartless, washrags, wastages, wastrels, waterage, weathers, welshers, wergelts, wheatear, wrastles, wreathes. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-g-h-l-r-s-s-t-w" | |
+2 letters: weatherglasses. | |
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