Bioscope
an early form of motion-picture projector, used about 1900.
Historical Examples
Appearances Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
Autobiography of a YOGI Paramhansa Yogananda
Autobiography of a YOGI Paramhansa Yogananda
The Crock of Gold James Stephens
Autobiography of a YOGI Paramhansa Yogananda
Seven Legs Across the Seas Samuel Murray
A Bed of Roses W. L. George
noun
a kind of early film projector
a South African word for cinema
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