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burning-glasses

burning-glasses is the plural of burning-glass.

Meaning of burning-glass

Noun

burning-glass (plural burning-glasses)

  1. (dated) A magnifying lens, as used to focus sunlight on to an object.
    • 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...

Questions about burning-glasses

What is burning-glasses the plural of?
Burning-glasses is the plural of burning-glass.

Words near burning-glasses in the dictionary

  1. burning tongue syndrome
  2. burning up
  3. burning-ghat
  4. burning-ghats
  5. burning-glass
  6. burning-glasses
  7. burningbush
  8. Burningham
  9. Burninghams
  10. burningly
  11. burningness

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