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To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another. [Recent]

An adjustable traveling bag consisting of two cases, the larger slipping over the other.

A sight consisting of a small telescope, as on a compass or rifle.

Of or pertaining to a telescope; performed by a telescope.

In a telescopical manner; by or with the telescope.

One who uses a telescope. R. A. Proctor.

The art or practice of using or making telescopes.

A spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or stars. Lockyer.

A stereoscope adapted to view distant natural objects or landscapes; a telescopic stereoscope.

A division of hydroids comprising those which have the hydranths in thecæ and the gonophores in capsules. The campanularians and sertularians are examples. Called also Thecata. See Illust. under Hydroidea.

An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer.

Of or pertaining to the thermoscope; made by means of the thermoscope; as, thermoscopic observations.

A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema.

Examination of the interior of the trachea by means of a mirror.

An apparatus for the detection of trichinæ in the flesh of animals, as of swine.

The process of forming an artificial palate.

Observation of the heavens or heavenly bodies.

An instrument for viewing the interior of the urethra.

Examination of the urethra by means of the urethroscope.

The diagnosis of diseases by inspection of urine. Sir T. Browne.