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adjective
Binocular  adj.  
1.
Having two eyes. "Most animals are binocular."
2.
Pertaining to both eyes; employing both eyes at once; as, binocular vision.
3.
Adapted to the use of both eyes; as, a binocular microscope or telescope.






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"Binocular" Quotes from Famous Books



... movements, and even observe the kind of food they consume. A very serviceable glass may be secured at a price varying from five to ten dollars. The National Association of Audubon Societies, New York City, sells a popular one for five dollars. If you choose a more expensive, high-powered binocular, it will be found of greater advantage when watching birds at a distance, as on a lake or ...
— The Bird Study Book • Thomas Gilbert Pearson

... Watkins's opinion—in the first place, because the woman's dress did not look like that of a peasant woman; and, secondly, because she went into the house, appeared again, and levelled at us what was, if I mistook not, a large pair of binocular glasses. Now, such things were not likely to be in the possession of the peasants of Neopalia. Then she suddenly retreated, and through the silence of those still slopes we heard the door of the cottage ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 • Various

... western horizon were faint blue cloud-like masses with pearly peaks. They were not clouds, however, but the sierras of the range weirdly named Cuchilla de las Animas—Ghost-haunted Mountains. At length, like a person who puts his binocular into his pocket and begins to look about him, I recalled my vision from its wanderings over illimitable space to examine the objects close at hand. On the slope of the hill, sixty yards from my standpoint, were some deep green, dwarf bushes, each bush looking in that still ...
— The Purple Land • W. H. Hudson

... carelessly. But now he saw it stir, squirm, and upend, unfolding itself and lifting its head to the leaping flame: an immense cobra, sleek and white as ivory, its swelling hood as large as a man's two hands, with a binocular mark on it as yellow as topaz, and with vicious eyes glowing like twin rubies ...
— The Bronze Bell • Louis Joseph Vance

... lowering his binocular, "it is like seeing an old friend with his nose cut off—waiting to ...
— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells

... suddenly startled him with demand to be told what he saw, and Arnold merely handed him the glass and pointed. The last of the faint smoke puffs was just soaring into space, making four still in sight. Blakely never even took the binocular. He had seen enough by ...
— An Apache Princess - A Tale of the Indian Frontier • Charles King

... absorbed in something he was examining through his binocular to notice him, however, and just as Allyne, somewhat reluctantly, spoke his name, the ...
— All Aboard - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry

... And then mother went to her room, and I know she cried. It was the only time that ever mother cried!' And as Maude listened, much impressed—'Once when she had got eleven pounds, and we were going to have bought father such a binocular for a secret as a birthday present, Mr. Flinders came, and she gave him ten of it, and we could only buy just a few slides for father. And she told me she was grieved, but she could not help it, and it would be time for me to ...
— The Two Sides of the Shield • Charlotte M. Yonge

... a much more pleasant object when seen through a binocular than when he is close to you. His frizzy locks are generally clotted with rancid butter, his slender garment is not over clean. He is a very plucky individual, as we know, thrifty, and lives upon next to nothing, but many live upon him. Several graybeards came up ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 • Various



Words linked to "Binocular" :   binocular vision, binocular microscope, eye



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