[SPECTACLE sb.1 6, 7 c.]
1. One who makes spectacles.
1530. Palsgr., 274/1. Spectacle maker, lunettier.
1611. Cotgr., Besiclier, a Spectacle-maker.
1674. Boyle, Excell. Theol., I. iv. 168. Des-Cartes does acknowledge with other writers, that perspective-glasses were … first found out … casually by one Metius, a Dutch spectacle-maker.
1728. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Telescope, Fifty Years afterwards, a Telescope … was made … by a Spectacle-maker of Middlebourg.
1839. Penny Cycl., XIV. 119/1. [List of City Companies] Spectacle-makers.
1883. Encycl. Brit., XVI. 258/1. Not only were spectacle-makers the first to produce glass magnifiers (or simple microscopes), but [etc.].
2. One who makes no score in either innings in a game of cricket.
1893. Star, 8 July, 4/2. The compiler has been cruel enough to set out a full list of spectacle makers during the whole term of years.
