hand glass

English

Noun

hand glass (plural hand glasses)

  1. A small glazed frame for the protection of plants.
  2. A small mirror with a handle.
    • 1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 8, in Pollyanna‎, L.C. Page, OCLC 33897078:
      "Oh, thank you. I love to fix people's hair," exulted Pollyanna, carefully laying down the hand-glass and reaching for a comb. "I sha'n't do much to-day, of course—I'm in such a hurry for you to see how pretty you are; but some day I'm going to take it all down and have a perfectly lovely time with it," she cried, touching with soft fingers the waving hair above the sick woman's forehead.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 hand glass under hand in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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