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† steel glass Obs.
1. A mirror made of polished steel, whether an ordinary looking-glass or an optical instrument of some special construction.
1530[see glass n.1 8 b]. 1542in Archæol. Jrnl. XVIII. 139 Item oone square Loking stele glasse sett in crymsen vellat. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. 78 b, With that he offered him at his commynge a stele glasse to loke in. 1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 71 A woman,..the onely steele glasse for man to beholde hys infirmities, by comparinge them wyth woemens perfections. 1614Bp. Hall Recoll. Treat. 901 As some steel-glasses, wherein the Sun looks and shewes his face in the variety of those colours which he hath not. 1677Sir T. Herbert Trav. 120 Near which is hung a Mirrour or steel-Glass.
2. (See quot. 1753.)
1662Merrett Neri's Art Glass Notes 342 Cardan. l. 2. [= xi] de variet. c. 57. Glasses call'd Steel-Glasses [orig. Specula chalibea uocata] are made of three parts of Brass, of one part of Tin and Silver, and an 18th part of Antimony. 1675Boyle in Phil. Trans. X. 348 Those metalline Specula, whether plain or concave, that are call'd Steel-glasses. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., Steel glasses, a name given by some authors to the metalline spheres used in optics. |