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A modification of the magic lantern, used esp. for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen, solar or artificial light being used.

Enlarged or magnified; -- said of images or of photographic pictures, etc.

An instrument containing a combination of colored glasses such that they transmit only red light, so that objects of other colors, as green leaves, appear black when seen through it. It is used for viewing colored flames, to detect the presence of potassium, lithium, etc., by the red light which they emit.…

An astrolabe; a planisphere. [Obs.]

Of or relating to metoposcopy.

One versed in metoposcopy.

The study of physiognomy; the art of discovering the character of persons by their features, or the lines of the face.

A modification of the stethoscope, for directly auscultating the uterus from the vagina.

Pertaining to microscopy, or to the use of the microscope. Huxley.

rged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye. Compound microscope, an instrument consisting of a combination of lenses such that the image formed by the lens or set of lenses nearest the object (called the objective) is magnified by another lens called the ocular or eyepiece. -- Oxyhydroge…

Microscopic. [R.] Berkeley.

Of or pertaining to the microscope or to microscopy; made with a microscope; as, microscopic observation.

By the microscope; with minute inspection; in a microscopic manner.

One skilled in, or given to, microscopy.

The use of the microscope; investigation with the microscope.

A spectroscope arranged for attachment to a microscope, for observation of the spectrum of light from minute portions of any substance.

See Projector, below.

To copy amiss.

Having the character or appearance of both mucus and pus. Dunglison.

A simple form of moving-picture machine in which the series of views, exhibiting the successive phases of a scene, are printed on paper and mounted around the periphery of a wheel. The rotation of the wheel brings them rapidly into sight, one after another, and the blended effect gives a semblance of motion.…