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Same as Manometer.

One of the side ropes to the gangway of a ship. Totten.

A speculum for examining a natural passage, as the urethra.

wed through a large lens with stereoptical effects. It is often combined with the stereoscope.

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.

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.]

The space between two triglyphs of the Doric frieze, which, among the ancients, was often adorned with carved work. See Illust. of Entablature.

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

A rock showing under the microscope the structure of a graphic granite (pegmatite). -- Mi`cro*peg`ma*tit"ic, a.

ged 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. -- Oxyhydrogen…

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

See Projector, below.

A hater of mankind; a misanthropist.

Having but one person, or form of existence.

the corolla in one piece, or composed of petals cohering so as to form a tube or bowl; gamopetalous.

nd spiritless. "Moping melancholy." Milton. A sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope. Shak.

Shortsighted; purblind.

Mopish. [R.]

One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between England and Scotland; -- so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country.