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lide 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]

f extension by joints sliding one within another, like the tube of a small telescope or a spyglass; especially (Mach.), constructed of concentric tubes, either stationary, as in the telescopic boiler, or movable, as in the telescopic chimney of a war vessel, which may be put out of sight by being lowered endwise.…

To see; to spy. [Obs.] P. Plowman.

a deceiver; a cheat. He had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan. Macaulay.

The division of mankind which embraces the races having woolly or crispy hair. Cf. Leiotrichi.

Having woolly or crispy hair; -- opposed to leiotrichous.

probable changes in the weather; esp., one published by government authority. -- Weather spy, a stargazer; one who foretells the weather. [R.] Donne. -- Weather strip (Arch.), a strip of wood, rubber, or other material, applied to an outer door or window so as to cover the joint made by it with the sill, casings, or…