| 单词 | seeing-glass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasseeing-glass seeing-glass n. in later use English regional (chiefly northern and Lincolnshire), Scottish, and archaic a looking-glass, a mirror. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > mirror > [noun] > looking-glass looking-glass1526 Venice glass1527 tooting-glassc1560 seeing-glass1565 girdle-glassa1652 Venice looking-glass1655 considering-glass1660 peeper1673 long glass1680 table glass1688 dressing glass1697 keeking-glassa1724 toilet glass1729 long mirror1793 swing-glass1809 hand glass1832 cheval-glass1836 psyche1838 tire-glass1844 tiring-glass1844 driving mirror1907 wing mirror1925 swing mirror1930 vanity mirror1959 1565 J. Jewel tr. Bible 1 Cor. xiii. 12 in Replie Hardinges Answeare xii. 452 Now we see as thorow a seeing glasse in a riddle: but then we shall see face to face. 1662 H. Hibbert Syntagma Theologicum 184 Men of repute are as seeing-glasses, by which most men dresse themselves. 1670 Inventory in Yorks. Notes & Queries Oct. (1906) 149/2 1 cloas stoole with pan, 1 seeing glass, 4 picters, 1 range. 1796 Will 1 Aug. in Notes & Queries (1898) 27 Aug. 164/1 I also give to my wife..a Seeing Glass. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 150 Seeing-glass, the old-fashioned term for a mirror, formerly a surface of polished metal. 1898 Notes & Queries 15 Oct. 314/1 Seeing-glass for looking-glass is occasionally heard in this neighbourhood [sc. North Lincolnshire], though I hear it is dying out. A Bottesford person said to me in June, 1887:—‘We've hed nowt bud bad luck sin that theäre seein'-glass was brok.’ 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 110/2 Seeing-glass, a looking glass, a glass mirror. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 263/1 Seein'-glass, looking glass, mirror. 1998 A. Jackson & all these Roads be Luminous 25 You have to keep taking off garments and putting other ones on until you see your self in the seeing glass. < as lemmas |
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