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Definition of Quizzing glass

Quizzing glass
Quiz Quiz, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quizzed; p. pr. & vb. n. Quizzing.] 1. To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions. He quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room. --Thackeray. 2. To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly. 3. To instruct in or by a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4. [U.S.] Quizzing glass, a small eyeglass.

Meaning of Quizzing glass from wikipedia

- article of gentlemen's apparel until the 19th century. The dandy's quizzing gl**** of the 1790s was an article of high fashion, which differs from the...
- scissors-gl****es solved the problem of the single-lensed monocle or "quizzing gl****", thought to be tiresome to the eye, by providing two lenses on a Y-shaped...
- services for a portrait. he depicts her as a lady of fashion, holding a quizzing gl****. After the July Revolution that sent the Bourbons into exile, the Duchess...
- The Big Fat Quiz of the Year is an approximately annual British television programme broadcast in the last or first w**** of the year on Channel 4. The...
- symbol used for decades: Nancy's head in profile, looking through a quizzing gl****. In the later Tandy period (1946 – 1949) and throughout the 1950s, Nancy...
- Ira Jeffrey Gl**** (/ˈaɪrə/; born March 3, 1959) is an American public radio personality. He is the host and producer of the radio and television series...
- The Gl**** family is a fictional family appearing in several of J. D. Salinger's short fictions. All but one of the Gl**** family stories were first published...
- Ludovic but is stopped by Sir Hugh, and in the struggle he loses a quizzing gl****. The next morning Sir Tristram discovers the missing gl****es and, noticing...
- fabulously rich, however, but he dresses all anyhow, and hasn't got a quizzing gl****, or any graceful habits." Nevertheless, for all its precise social detail...
- doubles. Quizzing Gl**** (2005) featured a fabricated single eye with movable, carved wooden lids and a video animation projected through a gl**** lens that...