Also spyglass. [f. SPY v. + GLASS sb.1 10. Cf. SPYING-GLASS.]

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  1.  A telescope; a field-glass.

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1706.  E. Ward, Wooden World Diss. (1708), 11. He’s never without a swinging large Spy-glass.

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1753.  Phil. Trans., XLVIII. 227. Turning the little end of a spy-glass, it appeared something like the ruins of Palmyra.

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1814.  Scott, Diary, 31 Aug., in Lockhart (1837), III. viii. 252. The whole, as seen with a spyglass, seems ruinous.

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1840.  Marryat, Poor Jack, xxi. A telescope, or spy-glass, as sailors generally call them.

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1875.  W. M‘Ilwraith, Guide to Wigtownshire, 50. Here with a spyglass one may discern the entrance to Dirk Hatterick’s cave.

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  2.  dial. An eye-glass.

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1883.  R. Cleland, Inchbracken, xi. 86. I have lost my gold spy-glass, something has caught the chain and broken it.

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