单词 | steel glass |
释义 | † steel glassn. Obsolete. 1. A mirror made of polished steel, whether an ordinary looking-glass or an optical instrument of some special construction. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > mirror > [noun] > metal mirror looking-glass1526 steel glass1530 steela1643 1530 Privy Purse Exp. Hen. VIII (1827) 81 A payer of tabulls and chesses, A stele glasse [etc.]. 1542 in Archæol. Jrnl. 18 139 Item oone square Loking stele glasse sett in crymsen vellat. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 78 b With that he offered him at his commynge a stele glasse to loke in. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues (new ed.) f. 21v A woeman,..the onely steele glasse for man to beholde his infirmities, by comparing them with womens perfections. 1612 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. I. i. i. 18 As some steele glasses, wherein the Sunne lookes and shewes his face in the variety of those colours which he hath not. 1677 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (rev. ed.) 120 Near which is hung a Mirrour or steel-Glass. 2. (See quot. 1753.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > apparatus > [noun] spectacle-case1597 steel glass1662 dark glasses1733 bruiser1738 hone pavement1738 Ramsden's ghost1807 sunshade1829 optical bank1874 phacometer1876 optical bench1880 flat1897 lens paper1925 light pipe1939 lens tissue1941 optical fibre1960 1662 C. Merrett tr. A. Neri Art of Glass Notes 342 Cardan. l. 2. [= xi] de variet. c. 57. Glasses call'd Steel-Glasses [L. Specula chalibea uocata] are made of three parts of Brass, of one part of Tin and Silver, and an 18th part of Antimony. 1675 R. Boyle in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 10 348 Those metalline Specula, whether plain or concave, that are call'd Steel-glasses. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Steel glasses, a name given by some authors to the metalline spheres used in optics. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1530 |
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