polemoscope

English

Etymology

From Greek Monster Polemos (the embodiment of war) +‎ -scope. Compare French polémoscope.

Noun

polemoscope (plural polemoscopes)

1. An opera glass or field glass with an oblique mirror arranged for seeing objects that do not lie directly before the eye.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “polemoscope”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)