[f. the name Stanhope (in Stanhope lens) + -SCOPE.] A magnifying lens like the Stanhope lens, but plane on the side farther from the eye.
1866. Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci., VI. 263. These Stanhoscopes … are, of course, not in every instance so perfect optically as is desirable.
1868. W. B. Carpenter, Microscope (ed. 4), 22. A modified form of the ‘Stanhope’ lens … has been brought out in France under the name of ‘Stanhoscope.’
