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eye-glass, n.|ˈaɪglɑːs, -glæs|
[f. eye n.1 + glass.]
†1. The crystalline lens of the eye. Obs.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 268 Your eye-glasse Is thicker then a Cuckolds Horne.
2. A glass to shield or protect the eye.
1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 65 Wearing a visor with eye-glasses in it.
3.
†a. A magnifying glass, a microscope (obs.).
b. In mod. use, a lens of glass or crystal for assisting defective sight. double eye-glass, (pair of) eyeglasses: two such lenses mounted side by side so as to assist the sight of both eyes; the name is by usage restricted to a pair of lenses to be held in the hand or kept in position by a spring on the nose; those which are secured by pieces of metal placed over the ears being called spectacles.
1767Harmer in Phil. Trans. LVII. 283, I have often found, by the help of an eye-glass, that..I passed over great multitudes of eggs. 1807Director I. 233 He uses his eye⁓glass more than his prayer-book. 1859G. Meredith R. Feverel xxix, Eyes are bearable, but eye-glasses an abomination. 1863M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Vict. (1878) I. ii. 17 The old man put a double gold eyeglass over his nose, and began to read. 1883F. M. Peard Contrad. xxvii, She fancied there had been something of the eye-glass manner about him. 1883F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius iii, She wore gold-rimmed eyeglasses.
4. The lens at that end of any optical instrument to which the eye is applied.
1664Phil. Trans. I. 2 He useth three Eye-Glasses for his great Telescopes. 1672Gregory in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) II. 242 The..plano-convex eyeglass. 1704Newton Opticks i. i. viii. (1721) 92 A pretty good Perspective..made with a concave Eyeglass. 1782Ramsden in Phil. Trans. (1783) LXXIII. 99 Thus we have a system of eye-glasses which may be taken out of the telescope. 1816J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 484 The focal distance of the eye⁓glass. 1837Goring & Pritchard Microgr. 56 The solar focus of its eye-glass. 1867J. Hogg Microsc. i. ii. 31 The other to magnify this image, and from being next the eye of the observer, called the eye-glass.
5. A glass adapted for the application of remedies to the eye.
1842Dunglison Mod. Lex., Eye Glass, Scaphium oculare. 1884in Syd. Soc. Lex., Eye-glass, a hollow cup⁓shaped glass for applying lotions to the eye.
Hence eyeglassed a., furnished with an eye-glass or eyeglasses.
1848Clough Bothie i. 9 Noble ladies..Bowing their eye⁓glassed brows. 1891M. E. Mann Winter's Tale II. ii. iv. 181 The eyeglassed young man. |