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n. 1. A hole or retreat into which an animal may creep, to escape notice or danger. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A subterfuge; an excuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of freeing from phosphorous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Heb. 'ēphōd, fr. 'āphad to put on. ] (Jew. Antiq.) A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front. Exodus xxviii. 6-12. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Ephors L. Ephori [ L. ephorus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to oversee; &unr_; + &unr_; to see: cf. F. éphore. ] (Gr. Antiq.) A magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the king. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to an ephor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of an ephor, or the body of ephors. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. gynh` a woman + fo`bos fear. ] Hatred of women; repugnance to the society of women. Holmes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ne`fos a cloud + -scope. ] (Meteorol.) An instrument for observing the clouds and their velocity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without being discovered. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Photo- + Gr. ne`fos a cloud + -graph. ] (Meteor.) A nephoscope registering by photography, commonly consisting of a pair of cameras used simultaneously. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A wireless telephone, in which the signal is conveyed by radio waves. -- Ra`di*o*te*leph"o*ny n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; far off + &unr_; sound. ] (Physics) An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The ordinary telephone consists essentially of a device by which currents of electricity, produced by sounds through the agency of certain mechanical devices and exactly corresponding in duration and intensity to the vibrations of the air which attend them, are transmitted to a distant station, and there, acting on suitable mechanism, reproduce similar sounds by repeating the vibrations. The necessary variations in the electrical currents are usually produced by means of a microphone attached to a thin diaphragm upon which the voice acts, and are intensified by means of an induction coil. In the magnetic telephone, or magneto-telephone, the diaphragm is of soft iron placed close to the pole of a magnet upon which is wound a coil of fine wire, and its vibrations produce corresponding vibrable currents in the wire by induction. The mechanical, or string, telephone is a device in which the voice or sound causes vibrations in a thin diaphragm, which are directly transmitted along a wire or string connecting it to a similar diaphragm at the remote station, thus reproducing the sound. It does not employ electricity. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To convey or announce by telephone. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A central office in which the wires of telephones from local subscribers may be connected by switches to other local telephones or to long-distance lines, to permit transmission of conversation or data. In the late 1990's the traditional copper wires connecting local telephones to the telephone exchange have begun to be replaced with optical fiber connections. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

a. [ Cf. F. téléphonique. See Telephone. ] 1. Conveying sound to a great distance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the telephone; by the telephone. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By telephonic means or processes; by the use of the telephone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as with the telephone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. th^le far + fw^s, fwto`s, light. ] A telelectric apparatus for producing images of visible objects at a distance. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. of or relating to photography with a telephoto lens. [ PJC ]

2. of or pertaining to a telephoto lens. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. a telephoto lens. [ PJC ]

2. a photograph taken using a telephoto lens. [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. th^le far + photograph. ] a photograph transmitted and reproduced by telephotography. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a photograph made with a telephoto lens.
Syn. -- telephoto. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Designating, or pertaining to, the process of telephotography. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. The photography of distant objects in more enlarged form than is possible by the ordinary means, usually by a camera provided with a telephoto lens or mounted in place of the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a magnified image falls on the sensitive plate. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Art or process of electrically transmitting and reproducing photographic or other pictures at a distance, especially by methods similar to those used in electric telegraphy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. Less properly, phototelegraphy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]