reading stone
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.64 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hemisphere of glass used as a magnifier when placed with its flat side against a surface with text.
Example Sentences
- "The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read."