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thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer.

ct in water continually renewed, in a manner to permit its growth to be watched under the microscope. -- Grown over, covered with a growth. -- To grow out of, to issue from, as plants from the soil, or as a branch from the main stem; to result from. These wars have grown out of commercial considerations. A. Hamilton.…

of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror. Electrical image. See under Electrical. -- Image breaker, one who destroys images; an iconoclast. -- Image graver, Image maker, a sc…

lens, consisting of a number of thin pieces fastened to a ring. It is used in cameras and microscopes.

A concave metallic mirror attached to the object-glass end of a microscope, to throw down light on opaque objects; a reflector.

times, chiefly made of linen. Linen draper, a dealer in linen. -- Linen prover, a small microscope for counting the threads in a given space in linen fabrics. -- Linen scroll, Linen pattern (Arch.), an ornament for filling panels, copied from the folds of a piece of stuff symmetrically disposed.

Of or pertaining to a lamp. Lucernal microscope, a form of the microscope in which the object is illuminated by means of a lamp, and its image is thrown upon a plate of ground glass connected with the instrument, or on a screen independent of it.

rease the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters. The least error in a small quantity . . . will in a great one . . . be proportionately magnified. Grew.

Small, little, trivial, slight; as, microcosm, microscope.

he part of geology relating to structure and organisms which require to be studied with a microscope.

ed crystal, often observed when minerals or rocks are examined in thin sections under the microscope.

An instrument, used with a telescope or microscope, for measuring minute distances, or the apparent diameters of objects which subtend minute angles. The measurement given directly is that of the image of the object formed at the focus of the object glass. Circular, or Ring, micrometer, a metallic ring fixed in the foc…

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

produced by throwing upon a sensitive plate the magnified image of an object formed by a microscope or other suitable combination of lenses.

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

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.

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.

Adapted to be used with only one eye at a time; as, a monocular microscope.