'Bioscope' definitions:

Definition of 'bioscope'

noun

A South African movie theater

noun

A kind of early movie projector

From: GCIDE

Bioscope \Bi"o*scope\, n. [Gr. bi`os life + -scope.]
1. A view of life; that which gives such a view. [1913 Webster]
Bagman's Bioscope: Various Views of Men and Manners. [Book Title.] --W. Bayley (1824). [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. An animated picture machine for screen projection; a cinematograph (which see); an archaic term replaced by movie projector. [archaic] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. a South African movie theater. [WordNet 1.5]

From: GCIDE

Cinematograph \Cin`e*mat"o*graph\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, motion + -graph.]
1. an older name for a movie projector, a machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 frames per second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture projector; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other older names for the {movie projector} are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zoogyroscope, zoopraxiscope, etc.
The cinematograph, invented by Edison in 1894, is the result of the introduction of the flexible film into photography in place of glass. --Encyc. Brit. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by the instrument described above. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]