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perspicils

perspicils is the plural of perspicil.

Meaning of perspicil

Noun

perspicil (plural perspicils)

  1. (obsolete) An optical glass; a telescope.
    • Chronology
      (Sharp-sighted as the eagle's eye, that can
      Out-stare the broad-beam'd Day's meridian)
      Will have a perspicil to find her outa. 1649, Richard Crashaw, On the Frontispiece of Isaacson's Chronology

Questions about perspicils

What is perspicils the plural of?
Perspicils is the plural of perspicil.

Words near perspicils in the dictionary

  1. perspicacities
  2. perspicacity
  3. perspicacy
  4. perspicience
  5. perspicil
  6. perspicils
  7. perspicuities
  8. perspicuity
  9. perspicuous
  10. perspicuously
  11. perspicuousness

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