Definition of "eyeglass" []

• Glasses for the eyes. (noun)
• A single lens in a pair of glasses; a monocle. (noun)
• See eyepiece. (noun)
• See eyecup. (noun)

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• "The subaltern with the eyeglass is a bad route-marcher, and Wankin once remarked in an audible whisper that the officer had learned his company drill with a drove of haltered pack-horses, and the officer bears the name of "Pack-horse" ever since."
• "Mary answered the bell, and her pleasure at seeing so soon again the sympathetic gentleman with the eyeglass was a tribute to his tact."
• "Medcroft's unspeakable checked suit; and the eyeglass was a much more obstinate, untractable thing than he had even suspected it could be."