HY'DROSCOPE, noun [Gr. water, and to view.] A kind of water clock, or instrument used anciently for measuring time, consisting of a cylindrical tube, conical at the bottom, perforated at the vertex, and the whole tube graduated.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.