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• Telescope

(1):

(a.) Capable of being extended or compacted, like a telescope, by the sliding of joints or parts one within the other; telescopic; as, a telescope bag; telescope table, etc.

(2):

(v. t.) To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope.

(3):

(n.) An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.

(4):

(a.) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.