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Definition of Hand glass

1. Noun. A mirror intended to be held in the hand.

2. Noun. Light microscope consisting of a single convex lens that is used to produce an enlarged image. "The magnifying glass was invented by Roger Bacon in 1250"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hand Glass

hand bridge hand by a hair hand calculator hand cart hand cheese hand clapping hand cream hand down hand drill hand dryer

hand dryers hand dye hand eczema hand fern hand grenade hand grenades hand holes hand in hand in glove hand in hand

hand in one's dinner pail hand injuries hand it to somebody hand jive hand jobs hand line hand log

Literary usage of Hand glass

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"... the young unfolding leaves when about 1 inch long are cut off close to the stems and inserted in sand under a hand-glass in the propagating-house. ..."

2. An Encyclopædia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of by John Claudius Loudon (1860)
"The leaden hand-glass is a small portable glazed case, formed by grooved strips of lead, and is either square or polygonal in the plan and roof. ..."

3. A Vers de Société Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1907)
"TO MINNIE (With a hand glass) A PICTURE-FRAME for you to fill, A paltry setting for your face, A thing that has no worth until You lend it something of your ..."

4. Journal of Social Science by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Frederick Stanley Root, American Social Science Association, Isaac Franklin Russell (1881)
"On the same (four hundred and second) day, I again held a hand-glass before ... But in the fifty-seventh week I held a hand-glass close to the child's face. ..."

5. Journal of Social Science by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Frederick Stanley Root, American Social Science Association, Isaac Franklin Russell (1882)
"But in the fifty-seventh week I held a hand-glass close to the child's face. ... On the same (four hundred and second) day, I agam held a hand-glass before ..."

6. Rural Affairs by John Jacob Thomas (1866)
"6, is a long hand-glass, for drills. Procure or prepare beau-poles and various stakes, brush for peas, &c.; as iS^v the latter is most easily inserted by ..."

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