Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Glass suited for making spectacles; optical glass.
- noun A lens of the kind or form used in spectacles.
- noun A field-glass; a telescope.
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Examples
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Uncle Henry looked at her attentively as she talked, eyeing her sidewise over the top of one spectacle-glass.
Understood Betsy 1917
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Uncle Henry looked at her, eyeing her sidewise over the top of one spectacle-glass.
Understood Betsy 1917
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Uncle Henry looked at her, eying her sidewise over the top of one spectacle-glass.
Understood Betsy 1917
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Uncle Henry looked at her, eyeing her sidewise over the top of one spectacle-glass.
Understood Betsy 1917
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Uncle Henry looked at her attentively as she talked, eyeing her sidewise over the top of one spectacle-glass.
Understood Betsy Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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Uncle Henry looked at her, eying her sidewise over the top of one spectacle-glass Frontispiece
Understood Betsy Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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"That's right," said Mrs. Simmons, with a happy tear under each spectacle-glass.
Romance of California Life John Habberton 1881
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Germans do call a spectacle-glass (or pair of spectacles) a Brill.
Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects John Aubrey 1661
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"This man and his hearers," said the angel, "possess the true spectacle-glass, to see the things which pertain to their peace, but they lack now in their old age, a very essential matter which is called perfect love.
The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell Ellis Wynne 1702
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