Word Meanings - OPTICIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One skilled in optics. A. Smith. 2. One who deals in optical glasses and instruments.

Related words: (words related to OPTICIAN)

• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• SKILLED
  Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.
• SKILLIGALEE
  A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army.
• SMITHSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Englishman J.L.M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n.
• SMITHSONITE
  Native zinc carbonate. It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color. See Note under Calamine.
• SMITHER
  Fragments; atoms; finders. Smash the bottle to smithers. Tennyson. (more info) 1. Light, fine rain. 2. pl.
• SMITH
  Icel. smi, Dan. & Sw. smed, Goth. smi ; cf. Gr. 1. One who forgess with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like. Piers Plowman. Nor yet the smith hath learned to form a sword. Tate. 2. One who
• SMITHCRAFT
  The art or occupation of a smith; smithing. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SMITHERY
  1. The workshop of a smith; a smithy or stithy. 2. Work done by a smith; smithing. The din of all his smithery may some time or other possibly wake this noble duke. Burke.
• SKILLET
  A small vessel of iron, copper, or other metal, with a handle, used for culinary purpose, as for stewing meat. (more info) ecuelle, fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish. Cf. Scuttle
• SMITHEREENS
  Fragments; atoms; smithers. W. Black.
• SKILL
  skilja to separate, divide, distinguish, Sw. skilja,. skille to separate, skiel reason, right, justice, Sw. skäl reason, Lith. skelli 1. Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause. Shak. "As it was skill and right." Chaucer. For great
• SMITHING
  The act or art of working or forging metals, as iron, into any desired shape. Moxon.
• SKILL-LESS
  Wanting skill. Shak.
• OPTICS
  That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision.
• SMITHY
  The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy. Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands. Lonfellow.
• OPTICALLY
  By optics or sight; with reference to optics. Optically active, Optically inactive , terms used of certain metameric substances which, while identical with each other in other respects, differ in this, viz., that they do or do not produce
• SYNOPTIC; SYNOPTICAL
  Affording a general view of the whole, or of the principal parts of a thing; as, a synoptic table; a synoptical statement of an argument. "The synoptic Gospels." Alford. -- Syn*op"tic*al*ly, adv.
• OPTIC; OPTICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to vision or sight. The moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views. Milton. 2. Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; as, the optic nerves (the first pair of cranial nerves) which are distributed to the retina.
• UNSKILLFUL
  1. Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician. 2. Lacking discernment; injudicious; ignorant. Though it make the unskillful laugh, can not but make the judicious grieve. Shak. --
• SCIOPTICS
  The art or process of exhibiting luminous images, especially those of external objects, in a darkened room, by arrangements of lenses or mirrors.
• WHITESMITH
  1. One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white iron; a tinsmith. 2. A worker in iron who finishes or polishes the work, in distinction from one who forges it.
• LOCKSMITH
  An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.
• AUTOPTICALLY
  By means of ocular view, or one's own observation. Sir T. Browne.
• SILVERSMITH
  One whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.
• SCOPTIC; SCOPTICAL
  Jesting; jeering; scoffing. South. -- Scop"tic*al*ly, adv.
• UNSKILL
  Want of skill; ignorance; unskillfulness. Sylvester.
• IRONSMITH
  An East Indian barbet , inhabiting the Island of Hainan. The name alludes to its note, which resembles the sounds made by a smith. (more info) 1. A worker in iron; one who makes and repairs utensils of iron; a blacksmith.
• BLADESMITH
  A sword cutler.