What is a kind of water clock, used anciently for measuring time, the water tricking from an orifice at the end of a graduated tube called?
hydroscope — A kind of water clock, used anciently for measuring time, the water tricking from an orifice at the end of a graduated tube. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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