sb. [ad. G. spektroskop or a. F. spectroscope.] An instrument specially designed for the production and examination of spectra.
1861. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., VIII. 279. The results obtained by the spectroscope.
1869. Roscoe, Elem. Chem., 153. The blowpipe flame … exhibits a characteristic series of bands when examined by means of the spectroscope.
1880. Haughton, Phys. Geogr., i. 6. By means of the spectroscope, it has been ascertained that the terrestrial elements, found in meteoric stones, may be found also in the sun.
Hence Spectroscope v. trans., to examine by means of a spectroscope.
1881. Standard, 30 Dec., 5/2. It was photographed and spectroscoped.
1886. Piazzi Smyth, in Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., XXXII. 521. Hence a solar spectroscoping … might be expected to have some further special interest connected with our own earth.
