scotoscope

English

Etymology

scoto- +‎ -scope

Noun

scotoscope (plural scotoscopes)

1. An instrument that discloses objects in the dark or in a faint light.
   • August 13th 1664, Samuel Pepys, Diary (London: Marshall Cavendish, 1988), 133.

     “Comes Mr. Reeve, with a microscope and scotoscope. [...] The other [the scotoscope] he gives me, and is of value; and a curious curiosity it is to discover objects in a dark room with.”

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “scotoscope”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)