ˈeyeglass, v. rare.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To look at through an eyeglass; to see through an eye-glass; intr., to use an eye-glass. Also fig.
| 1828 J. Banion Anglo-Irish II. 221 Miss Gore..employed herself..in eye-glassing Gerald. 1841 S. Bamford Passages in Life of Radical (ed. 2) I. v. 26 Some of the members..were eye-glassing across the house [of Commons]. 1893 Daily News 23 Feb. 6/4 That fever heat, insurrection, and great emergency which..Mr. Chamberlain eye-glassed in a not distant future. |