单词 | perspective trunk |
释义 | > as lemmasperspective trunk ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instrument for distant vision > [noun] > telescope trunk1610 trunk-glass1613 trunk-spectacle1613 telescope1619 tube1651 field glass1782 look-see1925 1610 C. Heydon in W. Camden Epist. (1691) 130 With one of our ordinary Trunks I have told eleven stars in the Pleiades. 1620 H. Wotton Let. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 414 A long perspective-trunke with the convexe glasse fitted to the said hole [in a camera obscura], and the concave taken out at the other end. a1637 B. Jonson Newes from New World 85 in Wks. (1640) III Fac. From the Moone!.. Pr. Oh by a Trunck! I know it, a thing no bigger than a Flute-case; A neighbour of mine, a spectacle-maker, has drawn the Moone through it at the boare of a whistle. < as lemmas |
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