Eyeglass: Definition and part of speech

Eyeglass

  1. n. A glass eyecup. See Eyecup.
  2. n. A lens of glass to assist the sight. Eyeglasses are used singly or in pairs.
  3. n. Eyepiece of a telescope, microscope, etc.
  4. n. The retina.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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