eyeglassn.

Brit.

/ˈʌɪɡlɑːs/,

/ˈʌɪɡlas/, U.S.

/ˈaɪˌɡlæs/

Forms: see eye n.¹ and glass n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: eye n.¹, glass n.¹

Etymology: < eye n.¹ + glass n.¹

a. Each of a pair of lenses for correcting or assisting defective eyesight, together with a frame or mounting which enables them to be kept in place in front of the eyes. Usually in plural: glasses, spectacles (frequently in pair of eyeglasses). Chiefly North American in later use.Formerly used esp. of a pair of such lenses designed to be held in the hand or kept in position by a spring on the nose, without the additional support of arms and earpieces; but still less common, as a term for such items however constructed, than glasses or spectacles.Quot. 1593 may refer to some kind of eye protection, rather than something worn to assist the eyesight; cf. sense 5.

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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > eye-glass or monocle

eyeglass1593

glass eye1721

quizzing glass1800

quizzer1806

ogling-glass1843

monocle1873

monoculus1892

window1896

Piccadilly window1897

windowpane1923

1593 A. Munday tr. C. Estienne Def. Contraries iv. 39 They haue no need of spectacles [Fr. lunettes], wherewith to see small thinges, nor of eye glasses [Fr. faux œils], otherwise called Bernacles, when they trauell in windie weather.

1797 G. Staunton Authentic Acct. Embassy to China II. vii. 542 The workmen did not seem to understand any principle of optics, so as to form the eye-glasses of such convexities or concavities, as to supply the various defects of vision.

1840 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 33 188 One of the principal rules..to be observed in all cases of myopy is, to have recourse to eye-glasses rather somewhat late than too early.

1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel II. xiii. 254 Eyes are bearable, but eye-glasses an abomination.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. i. 7 An old bewigged woman with eyeglasses pinching her nose.

1903 Daily Mail 22 Jan. 1/2 Lost, gold engraved hand eyeglasses.

1915 J. M. Thompson tr. in A. F. Steuart Papers relating to Scots in Poland 69 16 pairs of suspending eye-glasses.

1938 W. J. Blake World is Mine x. 163 He..had pedantic eyeglasses with thin gold earpieces.

1987 M. Dorris Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1988) ix. 165 She had a long, horsey face.., all teeth and oblong eyeglasses.

2005 Asian Age 28 Sept. 9/3 ‘We feel that we don't have the right to alter nature,’ said Mr Rene Mure, glaring behind large tortoise-shell-rimmed eyeglasses.

b. A pair of such lenses (sometimes more fully double eyeglass). Also (in later use more commonly): a single lens having the same purpose, a quizzing glass or monocle.

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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > spectacles

spectaclec1386

a pair of spectacles1423

ocularies?a1425

barnaclea1566

eye1568

sight-glasses1605

glass eye1608

prospective glass1616

sights1619

prospectivea1635

nose-compasses1654

glass1660

lunettes1681

peeper1699

eyeglass1760

specs1807

winker1816

gig-lamps1853

nose-riders1875

window1896

cheaters1920

1760 G. Baretti Dict. Eng. & Ital. Lang. II Eye-glass..[spectacles, glass to assist the sight], occhiali.

1788 J. O'Keeffe Farmer i. ii. 9 Farm. Stub. But, Jemmy, here's Neighbour Blackberry. Jemmy. Eh! ha! (looking at Farmer B. through a flat Eye Glass.)

1795 Oracle & Public Advertiser 21 Oct. Charged with..robbing him of a gold watch..and a silver-mounted eye-glass.

1807 Director I. 233 He uses his eye-glass more than his prayer-book.

1863 M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Victory (1878) I. ii. 29 The old man put a double gold eyeglass over his nose, and began to read.

1908 ‘F. Warden’ Dazzling Miss Davison 34 Lady Jennings..raised the gold-rimmed double-eyeglass which she wore dangling in front of her from a long thin gold chain.

1923 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 23 Dec. in Yours, Plum (1990) i. 31 He ordered a lot of English clothes from a Savile Row tailor, also spats and an eyeglass.

1959 A. Buchan Spare Chancellor ii. 39 Hutton's beard did not curl nor his eyeglass flash as Bagehot's did.

2001 G. Jennings Aztec Blood (2002) 679 Don Silvestre still will not recognize you. He has to get very close even to see with his eyeglass.

†2. The lens of the eye. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > other parts

whitec1390

crystalline humoura1398

crystalloida1398

crystalline?a1425

eyeball1575

eyeglassa1616

crystalline lens1654

crystal1657

lens1719

membranula1821

zonule1828

angle1830

disc1861

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 270 Your eye-glasse Is thicker then a Cuckolds Horne.

a. The eye lens or eyepiece of an optical instrument, esp. a telescope or microscope. Now rare (chiefly historical).

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [noun] > eye-piece

eyeglass1665

ocular1702

eyepiece1729

Ramsden1787

field glass1797

negative eyepiece1831

positive eyepiece1842

Kellner1865

orthoscopic1868

eye-point1875

comparison eyepiece1940

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia Pref. sig. f But when ever I had occasion to examine the small parts of a Body more accurately, I took out the middle Glass, and only made use of one Eye Glass with the Object Glass.

1672 I. Newton Let. 26 Mar. in Corr. (1959) I. 125 The diameter of ye convexity of ye eye glasse for a half foot Telescope.

1748 T. Rutherforth Syst. Nat. Philos. I. 389 If the eye is at c the station of the eye-glass the object will be magnifyed by the lens..in the proportion of the principal focal distance of the object-glass to the principal focal distance of the eye-glass.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 364/1 This telescope may be improved, by substituting for the eye-glass..the Huyghenian double eye-glass.

1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 56 The solar focus of its eye-glass.

1874 E. Roth tr. J. Verne Baltimore Gun Club xxiv. 365 The rays.., converged into a focus by the object glass, there form an image which is magnified by the eyeglass.

1918 A. C. Stokes Aquatic Microsc. (ed. 4) i. 18 The lens nearest the observer's eye, when the instrument is in use, is the ‘eye-glass’.

1996 C. Jungnickel & R. McCormmach Cavendish v. 307/1 Huygens showed astronomers that they could dispense with the unwieldly rigid tubes for mounting the object-glass and eye-glass.

b. A magnifying glass; (in later use) esp. one worn or mounted so as to leave the hands free for fine work (cf. loupe n.).

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > magnifying glass

magnifying glass1646

magnifier1665

hand glass1676

augmenter1703

spying-glass1767

eyeglass1768

power1854

spyglass1883

1698 M. Lister Journey to Paris 124 The very little squares were scarce visible to the naked Eye;..yet by the application of a good Eye-glass, I could readily distinguish the squares of all colours.

1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 283 I have often found, by the help of an eye-glass, that..I passed over great multitudes of eggs.

1869 D. Bremner Industries Scotl. 131 So fine is the work generally that a powerful eyeglass has to be used.

1879 F. Rutley Study of Rocks vi. 45 This clip-lens is..better than a watch-maker's eye-glass.

2011 Independent 31 Mar. (Viewspaper section) 11/1 He then settles himself, selects a graver, takes his eyeglass, leans forward over the plate and begins to cut.

4. An eye cup, an eyebath (eyebath n. (b) at eye n.¹ Compounds 4), esp. one made of glass. Now rare.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for applying medicaments > [noun] > for eye-drops

eye cup1586

eyebath1790

eyeglass1793

eyedropper1891

1793 W. Rowley Rational Pract. Physic III. 273 The lotio penetrans should be applied in the eye glass.

1835 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 17 91 It should be applied warm to the globe of the eye, by means of an eye-glass.

1882 L. S. Beale On Slight Ailments (ed. 2) 259 The practice..has been almost entirely abandoned in favour of solutions, which may be applied as drops or by using an eye-glass or eye-fountain.

1993 M. Atwood in Quarry Mag. Apr. 99 I have woken at night with tears in my eyes,..some foreign substance to be washed out with the aid of an eyeglass and boric acid.

5. A piece of glass to shield or protect the eye. Now rare.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for protecting the sight > [noun] > spectacles or eyeglasses

spectaclec1386

a pair of spectacles1423

goggles1715

eyeglass1823

preserves1883

1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 65 Wearing a visor with eye-glasses in it.

1879 J. Hopps in Artisan Rep. Paris Universal Exhib. 1878 (Royal Soc. Arts) 259 The driver's cab..had hinged eye-glasses.

1928 Locomotive Engineers Jrnl. Jan. 13/2 A sphinx-like stare out through the eye-glass for five long hours.

Compounds

General attributive; formerly sometimes with the sense ‘characteristic or suggestive of a person who wears eyeglasses’ (cf. eyeglassy adj.).

ΚΠ

1854 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts II. 856/2 A similar care to avoid waste is shown in making spectacle-frames and eye-glass frames.

1883 F. M. Peard Contradictions xxvii She fancied there had been something of the eye-glass manner about him.

1915 Auckland Star 2 Sept. 2/5 [He] tricks Carl Sanderson, of the pointed revolver—all in his best ‘eyeglass’ manner.

2000 S. D. Mech Rx for Quilters xvi. 108 Good lighting is always a better solution than a stronger eyeglass prescription.

Derivatives

ˈeyeglassed adj. having eyeglasses or an eyeglass.

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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [adjective] > wearing spectacles

spectacleda1616

barnacled1725

bespectacled1742

eyeglassed1830

specky1956

1830 L. Ritchie Game of Life I. viii. 259 It was some time before he could recognise..the top-booted, fur-collared, and eye-glassed gentleman he had met at the Three Puncheons.

1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich i. 9 Noble ladies..Bowing their eye-glassed brows.

1919 J. Masefield Reynard the Fox 12 Two eyeglassed gunners.

2007 R. McCammon Queen of Bedlam xviii. 226 A small square aperture in the door was flipped up and an eyeglassed dark brown eye peered out.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	eyeglass
释义	eyeglassn. Brit. /ˈʌɪɡlɑːs/, /ˈʌɪɡlas/, U.S. /ˈaɪˌɡlæs/ Forms: see eye n.¹ and glass n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: eye n.¹, glass n.¹ Etymology: < eye n.¹ + glass n.¹ 1. a. Each of a pair of lenses for correcting or assisting defective eyesight, together with a frame or mounting which enables them to be kept in place in front of the eyes. Usually in plural: glasses, spectacles (frequently in pair of eyeglasses). Chiefly North American in later use.Formerly used esp. of a pair of such lenses designed to be held in the hand or kept in position by a spring on the nose, without the additional support of arms and earpieces; but still less common, as a term for such items however constructed, than glasses or spectacles.Quot. 1593 may refer to some kind of eye protection, rather than something worn to assist the eyesight; cf. sense 5. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > eye-glass or monocle eyeglass1593 glass eye1721 quizzing glass1800 quizzer1806 ogling-glass1843 monocle1873 monoculus1892 window1896 Piccadilly window1897 windowpane1923 1593 A. Munday tr. C. Estienne Def. Contraries iv. 39 They haue no need of spectacles [Fr. lunettes], wherewith to see small thinges, nor of eye glasses [Fr. faux œils], otherwise called Bernacles, when they trauell in windie weather. 1797 G. Staunton Authentic Acct. Embassy to China II. vii. 542 The workmen did not seem to understand any principle of optics, so as to form the eye-glasses of such convexities or concavities, as to supply the various defects of vision. 1840 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 33 188 One of the principal rules..to be observed in all cases of myopy is, to have recourse to eye-glasses rather somewhat late than too early. 1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel II. xiii. 254 Eyes are bearable, but eye-glasses an abomination. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. i. 7 An old bewigged woman with eyeglasses pinching her nose. 1903 Daily Mail 22 Jan. 1/2 Lost, gold engraved hand eyeglasses. 1915 J. M. Thompson tr. in A. F. Steuart Papers relating to Scots in Poland 69 16 pairs of suspending eye-glasses. 1938 W. J. Blake World is Mine x. 163 He..had pedantic eyeglasses with thin gold earpieces. 1987 M. Dorris Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1988) ix. 165 She had a long, horsey face.., all teeth and oblong eyeglasses. 2005 Asian Age 28 Sept. 9/3 ‘We feel that we don't have the right to alter nature,’ said Mr Rene Mure, glaring behind large tortoise-shell-rimmed eyeglasses. b. A pair of such lenses (sometimes more fully double eyeglass). Also (in later use more commonly): a single lens having the same purpose, a quizzing glass or monocle. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > spectacles spectaclec1386 a pair of spectacles1423 ocularies?a1425 barnaclea1566 eye1568 sight-glasses1605 glass eye1608 prospective glass1616 sights1619 prospectivea1635 nose-compasses1654 glass1660 lunettes1681 peeper1699 eyeglass1760 specs1807 winker1816 gig-lamps1853 nose-riders1875 window1896 cheaters1920 1760 G. Baretti Dict. Eng. & Ital. Lang. II Eye-glass..[spectacles, glass to assist the sight], occhiali. 1788 J. O'Keeffe Farmer i. ii. 9 Farm. Stub. But, Jemmy, here's Neighbour Blackberry. Jemmy. Eh! ha! (looking at Farmer B. through a flat Eye Glass.) 1795 Oracle & Public Advertiser 21 Oct. Charged with..robbing him of a gold watch..and a silver-mounted eye-glass. 1807 Director I. 233 He uses his eye-glass more than his prayer-book. 1863 M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Victory (1878) I. ii. 29 The old man put a double gold eyeglass over his nose, and began to read. 1908 ‘F. Warden’ Dazzling Miss Davison 34 Lady Jennings..raised the gold-rimmed double-eyeglass which she wore dangling in front of her from a long thin gold chain. 1923 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 23 Dec. in Yours, Plum (1990) i. 31 He ordered a lot of English clothes from a Savile Row tailor, also spats and an eyeglass. 1959 A. Buchan Spare Chancellor ii. 39 Hutton's beard did not curl nor his eyeglass flash as Bagehot's did. 2001 G. Jennings Aztec Blood (2002) 679 Don Silvestre still will not recognize you. He has to get very close even to see with his eyeglass. †2. The lens of the eye. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > other parts whitec1390 crystalline humoura1398 crystalloida1398 crystalline?a1425 eyeball1575 eyeglassa1616 crystalline lens1654 crystal1657 lens1719 membranula1821 zonule1828 angle1830 disc1861 a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 270 Your eye-glasse Is thicker then a Cuckolds Horne. View more context for this quotation 3. a. The eye lens or eyepiece of an optical instrument, esp. a telescope or microscope. Now rare (chiefly historical). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [noun] > eye-piece eyeglass1665 ocular1702 eyepiece1729 Ramsden1787 field glass1797 negative eyepiece1831 positive eyepiece1842 Kellner1865 orthoscopic1868 eye-point1875 comparison eyepiece1940 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia Pref. sig. f But when ever I had occasion to examine the small parts of a Body more accurately, I took out the middle Glass, and only made use of one Eye Glass with the Object Glass. 1672 I. Newton Let. 26 Mar. in Corr. (1959) I. 125 The diameter of ye convexity of ye eye glasse for a half foot Telescope. 1748 T. Rutherforth Syst. Nat. Philos. I. 389 If the eye is at c the station of the eye-glass the object will be magnifyed by the lens..in the proportion of the principal focal distance of the object-glass to the principal focal distance of the eye-glass. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 364/1 This telescope may be improved, by substituting for the eye-glass..the Huyghenian double eye-glass. 1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 56 The solar focus of its eye-glass. 1874 E. Roth tr. J. Verne Baltimore Gun Club xxiv. 365 The rays.., converged into a focus by the object glass, there form an image which is magnified by the eyeglass. 1918 A. C. Stokes Aquatic Microsc. (ed. 4) i. 18 The lens nearest the observer's eye, when the instrument is in use, is the ‘eye-glass’. 1996 C. Jungnickel & R. McCormmach Cavendish v. 307/1 Huygens showed astronomers that they could dispense with the unwieldly rigid tubes for mounting the object-glass and eye-glass. b. A magnifying glass; (in later use) esp. one worn or mounted so as to leave the hands free for fine work (cf. loupe n.). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > [noun] > magnifying glass magnifying glass1646 magnifier1665 hand glass1676 augmenter1703 spying-glass1767 eyeglass1768 power1854 spyglass1883 1698 M. Lister Journey to Paris 124 The very little squares were scarce visible to the naked Eye;..yet by the application of a good Eye-glass, I could readily distinguish the squares of all colours. 1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 283 I have often found, by the help of an eye-glass, that..I passed over great multitudes of eggs. 1869 D. Bremner Industries Scotl. 131 So fine is the work generally that a powerful eyeglass has to be used. 1879 F. Rutley Study of Rocks vi. 45 This clip-lens is..better than a watch-maker's eye-glass. 2011 Independent 31 Mar. (Viewspaper section) 11/1 He then settles himself, selects a graver, takes his eyeglass, leans forward over the plate and begins to cut. 4. An eye cup, an eyebath (eyebath n. (b) at eye n.¹ Compounds 4), esp. one made of glass. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for applying medicaments > [noun] > for eye-drops eye cup1586 eyebath1790 eyeglass1793 eyedropper1891 1793 W. Rowley Rational Pract. Physic III. 273 The lotio penetrans should be applied in the eye glass. 1835 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 17 91 It should be applied warm to the globe of the eye, by means of an eye-glass. 1882 L. S. Beale On Slight Ailments (ed. 2) 259 The practice..has been almost entirely abandoned in favour of solutions, which may be applied as drops or by using an eye-glass or eye-fountain. 1993 M. Atwood in Quarry Mag. Apr. 99 I have woken at night with tears in my eyes,..some foreign substance to be washed out with the aid of an eyeglass and boric acid. 5. A piece of glass to shield or protect the eye. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for protecting the sight > [noun] > spectacles or eyeglasses spectaclec1386 a pair of spectacles1423 goggles1715 eyeglass1823 preserves1883 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 65 Wearing a visor with eye-glasses in it. 1879 J. Hopps in Artisan Rep. Paris Universal Exhib. 1878 (Royal Soc. Arts) 259 The driver's cab..had hinged eye-glasses. 1928 Locomotive Engineers Jrnl. Jan. 13/2 A sphinx-like stare out through the eye-glass for five long hours. Compounds General attributive; formerly sometimes with the sense ‘characteristic or suggestive of a person who wears eyeglasses’ (cf. eyeglassy adj.). ΚΠ 1854 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts II. 856/2 A similar care to avoid waste is shown in making spectacle-frames and eye-glass frames. 1883 F. M. Peard Contradictions xxvii She fancied there had been something of the eye-glass manner about him. 1915 Auckland Star 2 Sept. 2/5 [He] tricks Carl Sanderson, of the pointed revolver—all in his best ‘eyeglass’ manner. 2000 S. D. Mech Rx for Quilters xvi. 108 Good lighting is always a better solution than a stronger eyeglass prescription. Derivatives ˈeyeglassed adj. having eyeglasses or an eyeglass. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [adjective] > wearing spectacles spectacleda1616 barnacled1725 bespectacled1742 eyeglassed1830 specky1956 1830 L. Ritchie Game of Life I. viii. 259 It was some time before he could recognise..the top-booted, fur-collared, and eye-glassed gentleman he had met at the Three Puncheons. 1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich i. 9 Noble ladies..Bowing their eye-glassed brows. 1919 J. Masefield Reynard the Fox 12 Two eyeglassed gunners. 2007 R. McCammon Queen of Bedlam xviii. 226 A small square aperture in the door was flipped up and an eyeglassed dark brown eye peered out. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). eyeglassv. Brit. /ˈʌɪɡlɑːs/, /ˈʌɪɡlas/, U.S. /ˈaɪˌɡlæs/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: eyeglass n. Etymology: < eyeglass n. Chiefly literary. transitive and intransitive. To look (at) through eyeglasses or an eyeglass.In quot. 1893 figurative: to envisage. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look through glasses eyeglass1828 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > look at through glass or glasses side-glass1679 spectacle1744 eyeglass1828 spy1893 glass1935 1828 J. Banim Anglo-Irish II. 221 Miss Gore..employed herself..in eye-glassing Gerald. 1841 S. Bamford Passages Life Radical (ed. 2) I. v. 26 Some of the members..were eye-glassing across the house [of Commons]. 1893 Daily News 23 Feb. 6/4 That fever heat, insurrection, and great emergency which..Mr. Chamberlain eye-glassed in a not distant future. 1920 C. Brackett Counsel of Ungodly xxi. 196 ‘Who are the people at the small table by the fifth window?’ I asked Mrs. Hetherington. She craned and eyeglassed them. 2001 J. O'Neill At Swim, Two Boys (2002) 279 Them high-sniffing nobs eye-glassing you would have any man out of sorts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1593v.1828
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eyeglassn.

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eyeglassv.