"perspective glass" meaning in All languages combined

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1896, Thomas Nathaniel Orchard, The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost', London, New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 124:",
          "text": "The instrument was at first called Galileo's tube; the double eye-glass; the perspective; the trunk; the cylinder.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, Herbert Strang, In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India, Illustrated, India: Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 115:",
          "text": "He mounted, carrying the only perspective glass the vessel possessed. The captain watched him anxiously as he took a long look.",
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        "A kind of early telescope."
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        "An instrument for viewing an enlarged image of engraved prints or maps http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/perspective-glass."
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        "(historical) An instrument for viewing an enlarged image of engraved prints or maps http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/perspective-glass."
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      "form": "perspective glasses",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1896, Thomas Nathaniel Orchard, The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost', London, New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 124:",
          "text": "The instrument was at first called Galileo's tube; the double eye-glass; the perspective; the trunk; the cylinder.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, Herbert Strang, In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India, Illustrated, India: Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 115:",
          "text": "He mounted, carrying the only perspective glass the vessel possessed. The captain watched him anxiously as he took a long look.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A kind of early telescope."
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        "An instrument for viewing an enlarged image of engraved prints or maps http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/perspective-glass."
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        "(historical) An instrument for viewing an enlarged image of engraved prints or maps http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/perspective-glass."
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