multiplying glass

短语

词形变化

multiplying glasses 复数 multiplying glasses

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A glass with a number of facets, causing an object to appear multiplied many times.

    1694, N.H., The Ladies Dictionary, London: John Dunton, p. 95, […] ten to one but a Lady gets an Enemy when she refuses a Lover—who is generally so unreasonable an Animal, that he does not consider, One poor Woman can suffice at once but for one Man; whereas if a Fam’d Beauty, or Fortune, she can never content all Pretenders—unless she had as many Bodies as she has Faces when she looks in a Multiplying Glass.

  2. 2.

    A magnifying glass.

    废旧

    1631, Ben Jonson, The New Inn, London: Thomas Alchorne, Act I, Scene 1, poring through a multiplying glasse, / Vpon a captiu’d crab-louse, or a cheese-mite / To be dissected, as the sports of nature, / With a neat Spanish needle