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ate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object. "Shooting wide, do miss the marked scope." Spenser. Your scope is as mine own, So to enforce or quality the laws As to your soul seems good. Shak. The scope of all their pleading against man's authority, is to overthrow such laws and constitutions in the church. Ho…

Scopeloid.

Like or pertaining to fishes of the genus Scopelus, or family Scopelodæ, which includes many small oceanic fishes, most of which are phosphorescent. -- n. (Zoöl.)

An apparatus designed for collecting spores, germs, bacteria, etc., suspended in the air.

An instrument consisting in part of a differential thermometer. It is used for measuring changes of temperature produced by different conditions of the sky, as when clear or clouded.

An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations.

An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects.

An instrument for restoring a picture or image distorted by anamorphosis to its normal proportions. It usually consists of a cylindrical mirror.

An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.

An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants. Morin.

An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted.

An old astronomical instrument, formed of two cones, on whose surface the constellations were delineated.

An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.

Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates - or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.

A view of life; that which gives such a view.

An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning. T. Moore.

An instrument for showing the optical effects of color.

A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.

An instrument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc.

An apparatus to assist in locating the center of a cyclone.