mutoscope

[Lat. muto =to change, and Gr. skopeō to view.] A device for exhibiting instantaneous pictures of moving objects taken by the kinetograph or similar instrument. "Photographic prints from the series of pictures thus obtained are mounted in consecutive order around a cylinder standing out like the leaves of a book. When this cylinder is slowly revolved, the picture cards being held back by a stop, and allowed to snap past the eye one by one, asone thumbs the leaves of a book, an apparently moving picture is the result, and it is difficult to realize that the picture is not endowed with life. If you are enthralled with any particular pose of any particular picture, you can stop the crank and study it. It is here that the mutoscope differs from its fellows in the pictorial machinery field."- New York Herald , Feb. 7, 1897. mut-ter, *mut-tre, *motere, v. i. & t. [From an imitative root mot, or mut, with the verbal fre defective. *mut-Ine, v. t. [Fr. mutiner =to mutiny (q. v.).] To mutiny. *müt-ine, s . [Fr.mut in=mutinous.] [MUTINY.] A mutineer.