Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small telescope.
- noun A pair of binoculars.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small hand-telescope.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small portable
telescope . - noun A pair of
binoculars .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small refracting telescope
Etymologies
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Examples
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Two cushioned chairs sat at the table and a small end table leaned up against the couch, on top of which there was a medium sized spyglass, that is, a telescope.
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He packed the "spyglass" lovingly in his suitcase, anxious about revealing his discovery.
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He packed the "spyglass" lovingly in his suitcase, anxious about revealing his discovery.
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He carried his "spyglass" around with him for days, anxious to show his friends, my friends, passing strangers, and especially his father.
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He carried his "spyglass" around with him for days, anxious to show his friends, my friends, passing strangers, and especially his father.
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He had learned of the existence of the spyglass in the spring of 1609, but paid no attention to it; however, during the first week of July he had the new idea that the spyglass could be a valuable instrument (C.
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He's got the very same kind of spyglass as mine. "
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This particular year was chosen because 400 years ago Galileo turned a spyglass to the sky.
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Shifting position on the roof of the old Greymont Hotel, I held a brass spyglass up to my eye so I could watch the expression on his face.
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Thus Gillray successively depicts him as a Lilliputian figure peered at through a spyglass by King George III and as a voracious, wild-eyed dandy vying with Prime Minister William Pitt for the biggest piece of the European plum pudding.
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