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burning-glass en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈbəːnɪŋɡlɑːs/ (UK)

Meanings

1. (dated) A magnifying lens, as used to focus sunlight on to an object.
   • Our burning-glass also now became a great treasure, as it enabled me to magnify, and so perceive more clearly […]. 1858, R M Ballantyne, The Coral Island:
   • The more he sees her, the worse he is, uritque videndo; as in a burning-glass the sunbeams are re-collected to a centre, the rays of love are projected from her eyes. 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 2, subsection ii:
   • The Vestal fire was rekindled by sunlight reflected from a burning-glass. 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 207:

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