lantern : Idioms & Phrases

Ar"is*to`tle's lan"tern

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1. (Zoöl.) The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.

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• noun a collapsible paper lantern in bright colors; used for decorative purposes
  

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• noun Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
  bladder cherry; Physalis alkekengi; winter cherry.
  

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• noun a lantern with a single opening and a sliding panel that can be closed to conceal the light
  bull's-eye.
  

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• . See Lantern. The
• a lantern with a single opening, which may be closed so as to conceal the light; called also bull's-eye.

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• noun any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having egg-shaped flowers
  globe lily.
  

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• noun a pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground
  friar's lantern; ignis fatuus; will-o'-the-wisp.
  

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• the ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp. Milton.

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• noun globe lily having open branched clusters of clear yellow egg-shaped flowers; northern California
  Calochortus amabilis; yellow globe lily.
  

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• noun an oil lamp with a glass chimney and perforated metal lid to protect the flame from high winds; candlestick with a glass chimney
  hurricane lamp; hurricane lantern; storm lantern; storm lamp.
  

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• noun a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent
  Omphalotus illudens; jack-a-lantern; jack-o-lantern.
  

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• noun a pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground
  friar's lantern; ignis fatuus; will-o'-the-wisp.
  
• noun lantern carved from a pumpkin
  

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Jack"-o'-lan`tern noun

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1. See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack.

Webster 1913

• noun a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent
  Omphalotus illudens; jack-a-lantern; jack-o-lantern.
  

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• noun a large poisonous agaric with orange caps and narrow clustered stalks; the gills are luminescent
  Omphalotus illudens; jack-a-lantern; jack-o-lantern.
  

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• . (a) An ignis fatuus; a will-o'-the-wisp . "[Newspaper speculations] supplying so many more jack-o'-lanterns to the future historian." Lowell. (b) A lantern made of a pumpkin so prepared as to show in illumination the features of a human face, etc.

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• noun large brightly marked tropical insect with a process like a snout that was formerly thought to emit light
  lantern fly.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large, handsome, hemipterous insects of the genera Laternaria, Fulgora, and allies, of the family Fulgoridæ. The largest species is Laternaria phosphorea of Brazil. The head of some species has been supposed to be phosphorescent.

Webster 1913

• noun a long thin lower jaw
  lantern jaw.
  

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• noun a long thin lower jaw
  lantern jaw.
  

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• long, thin jaws; hence, a thin visage.

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• noun a small pinion having cylindrical bars instead of teeth, used chiefly in inexpensive clocks
  lantern pinion.
  

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• (Mach.), a kind of pinion or wheel having cylindrical bars or trundles, instead of teeth, inserted at their ends in two parallel disks or plates; so called as resembling a lantern in shape; called also wallower, or trundle.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), any translucent, marine, bivalve shell of the genus Anatina, and allied genera.

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• noun a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector
  slide.
  

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• noun a small pinion having cylindrical bars instead of teeth, used chiefly in inexpensive clocks
  lantern pinion.
  

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• noun large brightly marked tropical insect with a process like a snout that was formerly thought to emit light
  lantern fly.
  

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• adjective satellite having a protruding jaw giving the face a gaunt appearance
  

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Lan"tern-jawed` adjective

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1. Having lantern jaws or long, thin jaws; as, a lantern-jawed person.

Webster 1913

• noun an early form of slide projector
  

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• . See Lantern.
• an optical instrument consisting of a case inclosing a light, and having suitable lenses in a lateral tube, for throwing upon a screen, in a darkened room or the like, greatly magnified pictures from slides placed in the focus of the outer lens.

Webster 1913

• noun an oil lamp with a glass chimney and perforated metal lid to protect the flame from high winds; candlestick with a glass chimney
  hurricane lamp; hurricane lantern; storm lantern; storm lamp.
  

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• noun an oil lamp with a glass chimney and perforated metal lid to protect the flame from high winds; candlestick with a glass chimney
  hurricane lamp; hurricane lantern; storm lantern; storm lamp.
  

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• noun globe lily having open branched clusters of egg-shaped white flowers; southern California
  Calochortus albus; white globe lily.
  

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