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Index :: Index (n.) That which guides, points out, informs, or directs; a pointer or a hand that directs to anything, as the hand of a watch, a movable finger on a gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument. In printing, a sign used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph; -- called also fist..

Surveyor :: Surveyor (n.) An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger..

Pluviometer :: Pluviometer (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the amount of rainfall at any place in a given time; a rain gauge.

Gauge :: Gauge (v. t.) To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg..

Gauged :: Gauged (p. a.) Tested or measured by, or conformed to, a gauge..

Gauge :: Gauge (n.) The distance between the rails of a railway.

Gage :: Gage (n.) A measure or standard. See Gauge, n..

Sea Gauge :: Sea gauge () See under Gauge, n..

Ombrometer :: Ombrometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the rain that falls; a rain gauge.

Weather :: Weather (a.) Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc..

Udometer :: Udometer (n.) A rain gauge.

Gauged :: Gauged (imp. & p. p.) of Gaug.

Gauge :: Gauge (n.) A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard..

Water Gauge :: Water gauge () A wall or bank to hold water back.

Manometer :: Manometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the gas to exert its elastic force in raising a column of mercury in an open tube, or in compressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, or in bending a metallic or other spring so as to set in motion an index; a pressure gauge. See Pressure, and Illust. of Air pump..

Size :: Size (n.) An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls..

Gauge :: Gauge (n.) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.

Gaugeable :: Gaugeable (a.) Capable of being gauged.

Indicator :: Indicator (n.) A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part.

Tagger :: Tagger (n.) Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.

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