Baumé

[ boh-mey, boh-mey ]

/ boʊˈmeɪ, ˈboʊ meɪ /

Antoine,1728–1804, French chemist and inventor.

pertaining to, noting, or calibrated according to a Baumé scale.

Origin of Baumé

First recorded in 1835–45

A physician writes asking for the formula of Baume Analgsique Bengu.

The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 |Various
Mr. Baume says he has practised his method with considerable success during twenty years.

The Aural System |Anonymous
Yet it was to the Ste. Baume that Muriel had gone, and that she had written to her husband.

Running Sands |Reginald Wright Kauffman
He got into a carriage with me, and I told the coachman to take us to the "Ste. Baume" inn.

The Memoires of Casanova, Complete |Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Mr. Baume, will, I think find the difficulties he mentions to disappear, if the pupil prepare himself as I have prescribed.

The Aural System |Anonymous

Baumé

[ bō-mā′ ]

Antoine 1728-1804

French pharmacist who invented a process for making sal ammonia and in 1768 devised an improved hydrometer using the scale that now bears his name.