English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

Result for Telescope

Telescope (n.)

An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.

Telescope (a.)

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.

Telescope (v. t.)

To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope.