One of which the bulb is kept moist by the capillary attraction of cotton fibres from an attached reservoir.
·add. ·- That one of the two similar thermometers of a psychrometer the bulb of which is moistened; ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The readings of this instrument, when compared with those of a wet-bulb thermometer, indicate the am...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·vi To take the shape of a bulb; to <<Swell>>. II. Bulb ·noun A name given to some parts that resem...
·noun An instrument for measuring temperature, founded on the principle that changes of temperature ...
An instrument to measure the amount of heat by the expansion of a fluid (generally quicksilver) cont...
·adj A dram; a drink. II. Wet ·Impf & ·p.p. of Wet. III. Wet ·superl Refreshed with liquor; drunk....
The owners and master of a ship are liable for all damage by wet. (See stowage.) ...
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Hot pot. ...
·noun An aerial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants. ...
·add. ·- A thermometer by merely inverting which the temperature may be registered. The column of me...
·- A thermometer filled with water instead of mercury, for ascertaining the precise temperature at w...
An instrument for trying the temperature of the sea at different depths. It consists of a hollow wei...
·- A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. ·cf. Dry nurse. ...
·add. ·- A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such p...
·adj Having the feet, or the shoes on the feet, wet. ...
One who moistens his clay freely, in order to make it stick together. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
One of that sect who has no objection to the spirit derived from wine. ...
A term used for float (which see), and also dock. ...