Union, and (barometrically) 2958 feet above mean-tide in the Pacific. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference
But the people were still the arbiters of the fire cost, and the companies merely barometrically reflected the condition of the community as to fires. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
The number of localities, the level of which he has determined barometrically, with the view of fixing the ancient levels of all these vanished glaciers, is almost incredible. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
The chancelleries published bulletins announcing the return of fair weather, barometrically as it were. From Wordnik.com. [Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House] Reference
When mother was "fair," (barometrically speaking, of course), father was naturally down at "changeable"!. From Wordnik.com. [Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication] Reference
It is said that one of these peaks was measured geometrically and barometrically on behalf of the Hudson's Bay Company, and that it is 25,000 feet high. From Wordnik.com. [A JOURNEY TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN 1839] Reference
The philofopher who undertakes to meaiurt d heights barometrically fhould be provided with two portable barometers, of the beft conftruftion, on which he may read off the height of the mercurial columns to the 500th part of an inchi each barok of coB&krable de virions in th/e pFa&ice. From Wordnik.com. [An introduction to natural philosophy : illustrated with copper plates] Reference
Cheney might not be acting in good faith, but he’s nevertheless pointing to something barometrically significant. From Wordnik.com. [You Saying You Believed That? | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
But it’s barometrically significant that the neoconservatives use this discourse to justify the occupation of Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [The Invasion | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
I’d suspect that their exact map location can be determined and I believe the altitude is determined barometrically. From Wordnik.com. [Jacoby's "Lost" Gaspé Cedars « Climate Audit] Reference
Other times he’s a sluice gate for the community’s feelings about some issue or other, in which case what he reports is barometrically significant. From Wordnik.com. [I Against I | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
It might reasonably be observed that such a deemphasis occurs because there’s going to be a series of provincial elections next month, but that itself is barometrically significant — no one’s running for those elections on a platform of greater ties to the United States. From Wordnik.com. [I Need Direction To Get Through | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
— but the paranoia about the U.S.’s intentions is probably barometrically significant. From Wordnik.com. [‘To Defy History’ | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
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