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Webster 1913 Edition

(pẽr′spĭ-sĭl)

Noun.

[LL.

perspicilla

, fr. L.

perspicere

to look through.]

An optical glass; a telescope.

[Obs.]

Crashaw.

Noun.

[L.per and speculum, a glass.]

An optic glass. [Little used.]

perspicil ‎(plural perspicils)

(obsolete) An optical glass; a telescope.
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