Spectacles
['spektək(ə)lz] or ['spɛktəklz]
Definition
(noun.) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision.
Edited by Arnold--From WordNet
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. Glasses.
Typed by Cedric
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of spectacles, foretells that strangers will cause changes in your affairs. Frauds will be practised on your credulity. To dream that you see broken spectacles, denotes estrangement caused by fondness for illegal pleasures.
Typist: Tyler
Examples
- She put up her spectacles, shut the Bible, and pushed her chair back from the table. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Mr. Helstone pushed up his spectacles from his nose to his forehead, handled his snuff-box, and administered to himself a portion of the contents. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mr. Pickwick returned the glare, concentrated into a focus by means of his spectacles, and breathed a bold defiance. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Here is the rivet of your mistress's spectacles out. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Mr Wegg (who had had nothing else in his mind for several nights) took off his spectacles with an air of bland surprise. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- One was an elderly man, with white hair and large rimmed spectacles. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The old gentleman was a very respectable-looking personage, with a powdered head and gold spectacles. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I got at my spectacles, with some fumbling and difficulty, feeling the Sergeant's dismal eyes fixed on me all the time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I have the pleasure, madam, (to Mrs. Bates,) of restoring your spectacles, healed for the present. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Silas receives one from his hand, which Venus takes from a wonderful litter in a drawer, and putting on his spectacles, reads: '“Mr Venus,”' 'Yes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And, by the bye, every body ought to have two pair of spectacles; they should indeed. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Should we send to the house for thy spectacles? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Achromatic and other lenses were known, and the microscope, the telescope and spectacles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Wegg, who had been going to put on his spectacles, immediately laid them down, with the sprightly observation: 'You read my thoughts, sir. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I think I now see the judicious reader putting on his spectacles to look for the moral. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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