? Obs. [mod. f. Gr. ἄνεμος wind + -σκοπος watching, a watcher; also mod.Fr.] An instrument for showing the direction of the wind, or foretelling a change of weather.
1706. Phillips, Anemoscope, a Device invented to fore-shew the Change of the Air, or the Shifting of the Wind.
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., s.v., Hygroscopes made of cat’s gut, etc., proved very good anemoscopes.
1744. Pickering, in Phil. Trans., XLIII. 9. The Anemoscope is a Machine four Feet and a Quarter high, consisting of a broad and weighty Pedestal, a Pillar fastened into it, and an iron Axis, of about half an Inch Diameter, fastened into the Pillar. Upon this Axis turns a wooden Tube, at the Top of which is placed a Vane.
1812. Edin. Rev., XX. 184. This whimsical piece of mechanism, under the name of anemoscope.
