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Telephotographic; specif., designating a lens consisting of a combination of lenses specially designed to give a large image of a distant object in a camera of relatively short focal length.

A photograph, image, or impression, reproduced by or taken with a telephotographic apparatus.

Designating, or pertaining to, the process of telephotography.

The photography of distant objects in more enlarged form than is possible by the ordinary means, usually by a camera provided with a telephoto lens or mounted in place of the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a magnified image falls on the sensitive plate.

Having a division by fours; separated into four parts or series, or into series of fours.

The god of eloquence and letters among the ancient Egyptians, and supposed to be the inventor of writing and philosophy. He corresponded to the Mercury of the Romans, and was usually represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis or a lamb.

Divided into three parts, or into threes; three-forked; as, a trichotomous stem. Martyn.

Division into three parts.

A basic substance, C7H17NO2, formed from the growth of the typhoid bacillus on meat pulp. It induces in small animals lethargic conditions with liquid dejecta.

Moved by water passing beneath; -- said of a water wheel, and opposed to overshot; as, an undershot wheel.

To remove the shot from, as from a shotted gun; to unload.

end; the result; the consummation. I can not pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot. Shak. We account it frailty that threescore years and ten make the upshot of man's pleasurable existence. De Quincey.

White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.

Hot. [Obs.] Spenser.

To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. [R.]

The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B.

(found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography.

To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated. Boyle.

An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.

be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected. To be the aim of every dangerous shot. Shak.