- A telescope or instrument for viewing the sun without
injury to the eyes, as through colored glasses, or with mirrors which
reflect but a small portion of light.
- Discoverer - One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a
small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a
larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.
- Condense - Crush together - Magnifier - Optical instrument - Stargazing tool - An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects,
as the heavenly bodies. - To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of
the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision,
as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
- chasing - Coming after - In hot pursuit - of Follow - One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. - Vocation; business; profession. - Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was
held on the following day.
- Aquarium creature - A small domesticated cyprinoid fish (Carassius auratus);
-- so named from its color. It is native of China, and is said to have
been introduced into Europe in 1691. It is often kept as an ornament,
in small ponds or glass globes. Many varieties are known. Called also
golden fish, and golden carp. See Telescope fish, under Telescope. - A California marine fish of an orange or red color; the
garibaldi.
- Of or pertaining to a telescope; performed by a
telescope. - Seen or discoverable only by a telescope; as,
telescopic stars. - Able to discern objects at a distance; farseeing;
far-reaching; as, a telescopic eye; telescopic vision. - Having the power of extension by joints sliding one
within another, like the tube of a small telescope or a spyglass;
especially (Mach.), constructed of concentric tubes, either stationary,
as in the telescopic boiler, or movable, as in the telescopic chimney
of a war vessel, which may be put out of sight by being lowered
endwise.