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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reticule \Ret"i*cule\, n.. [F. r['e]ticule, L. reticulum, dim.
of rete a net. Cf.{Retina}, {Reticle}.]
1. A little bag, originally of network; a woman's workbag, or
a little bag to be carried in the hand. --De Quincey.
2. A system of wires or lines in the focus of a telescope or
other instrument; a reticle.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
reticule
n 1: a woman's drawstring handbag; usually made of net or beading
or brocade; used in 18th and 19th centuries
2: a system of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the
focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument [syn:
{reticle}, {graticule}]
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