multiplying glass

Noun

 * 1) A glass with a number of facets, causing an object to appear multiplied many times.
 * 2) * 1694, N.H., The Ladies Dictionary, London: John Dunton, p.95,
 * ten to one but a Lady gets an Enemy when she refuses a Lover—who is generally so unreasonable an Animal, that he does not consider, One poor Woman can suffice at once but for one Man; whereas if a Fam’d Beauty, or Fortune, she can never content all Pretenders—unless she had as many Bodies as she has Faces when she looks in a Multiplying Glass.
 * 1)  A magnifying glass.
 * 2) * 1631,, , London: Thomas Alchorne, ActI, Scene1,
 * poring through a multiplying glasse, / Vpon a captiu’d crab-louse, or a cheese-mite / To be dissected, as the sports of nature, / With a neat Spanish needle
 * 1) * 1631,, , London: Thomas Alchorne, ActI, Scene1,
 * poring through a multiplying glasse, / Vpon a captiu’d crab-louse, or a cheese-mite / To be dissected, as the sports of nature, / With a neat Spanish needle
 * poring through a multiplying glasse, / Vpon a captiu’d crab-louse, or a cheese-mite / To be dissected, as the sports of nature, / With a neat Spanish needle