Of less account some knight thereto object,
Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove. Fairfax.

Some strong impediment or other objecting itself. Hooker.

Pallas to their eyes
The mist objected, and condensed the skies. Pope.

He gave to him to object his heinous crime. Spencer.

Others object the poverty of the nation. Addison.

The book . . . giveth liberty to object any crime against such as are to be ordered. Whitgift.

Object is a term for that about which the knowing subject is conversant; what the schoolmen have styled the "materia circa quam." Sir. W. Hamilton.

The object of their bitterest hatred. Macaulay.

Object, beside its proper signification, came to be abusively applied to denote motive, end, final cause . . . . This innovation was probably borrowed from the French. Sir. W. Hamilton.

Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. D. Webster.

He, advancing close
Up to the lake, past all the rest, arose
In glorious object. Chapman.

Object glass, the lens, or system of lenses, placed at the end of a telescope, microscope, etc., which is toward the object. Its office is to form an image of the object, which is then viewed by the eyepiece. Called also objective. See Illust. of Microscope. -- Object lesson, a lesson in which object teaching is made use of. -- Object staff. (Leveling) Same as Leveling staff. -- Object teaching, a method of instruction, in which illustrative objects are employed, each new word or idea being accompanied by a representation of that which it signifies; -- used especially in the kindergarten, for young children.