Meanings
- rareuncountableThe study of rainfall.
"[…] We're so huge a field we even contain a branch of knowledge called 'ombrology' that studies rain." […] "Ombrology?" Josh asked, stressing the syllable 'om.' "Shouldn't the field be called umbrellogy?"
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Hints for an Essay on Anemology and Ombrology, founded partly on admitted Principles, and partly on Observations and Discoveries, recently made, on the Influence of the Planet Jupiter and its Satellites on our Atmosphere; with a Weather Almanack for 1841. By Peter Leigh, Esq., A.M., Author of "The Music of the Eye."
1841, The Gardener's Magazine, and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement, page 87Combined and digested, these observations give us a very intelligible view of the fall of rain that occurs over the island. Yet further multiplied and continued for a series of years, they would reduce our knowledge of the ombrology of the country to the state of definite scientific information.
1881, The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, volume 153, page 446
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