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ˈmultiplying-glass
†1. A magnifying-glass. Also fig. Obs.
Cf. multiply v. 1 f.
1628Feltham Resolves ii. xxxv, On our sicke beds, [hee] shewes vs all our sinnes in multiplying Glasses. c1640Capt. Underwitt i. in Bullen O. Pl. II. 336, I wod not have a man..so much a dwarfe that I must use a multiplying glass to know the proportion of his limbes. 1656Cowley Misc., Ode of Wit ii, Some things do through our Judgment pass As through a Multiplying Glass. 1680S. Mather Irenicum 19 The blind prophane world, who pretend to take offence at our divisions, looking upon them in the multiplying Glasses of their own enmity, and so accounting every difference in Religion to be a different Religion.
2. A toy consisting of a concave glass or lens, the surface of which is cut into numerous facets so as to give as many reflexions of the object observed. Also fig.
1671H. Foulis Hist. Romish Treasons (1681) 60 As for Bellarmine, you may look through him like a Multiplying-glass and perceive multitudes of people. 1688Holme Armoury iii. ix. 375/1 Multiplying Glasses, that makes one things [sic] seem many. 1701Norris Ideal World i. ii. 50 So many reproductions of one thing, like the image of the same face repeated in a multiplying glass. 1764J. Ferguson Lect. 147 The multiplying glass is made by grinding down the round side..of a convex glass..into several flat surface[s]. 1831Brewster Optics xxxix. 329 Natural multiplying glasses may be found among transparent minerals which are crossed with veins oppositely crystallised. 1862–7J. Wylde's Circ. Sci. I. 60/2. |