Word Finder - lantern

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A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.

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Especially, a metal casing with lens used to illuminate a stage (e.g. spotlight, floodlight).

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An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.

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A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.

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A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light.

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the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral

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A lantern pinion or trundle wheel.

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(steam engines) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc.; a lantern brass.

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A light formerly used as a signal by a railway guard or conductor at night.

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A perforated barrel to form a core upon.

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Aristotle's lantern

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To furnish with a lantern.

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to lantern a lighthouse

Her head nodded once and she jerked it up, blinking in the lantern light.

She retreated to her room and turned up the lantern overhead to hide the light of her micro.

Each carrying two canteens, a rifle and a lantern, they started off into the long shadows of the sand dunes.

A low span, with dwarf side walls, and a lantern ventilator along the ridge, the height in the centre being 9 ft., would be very well adapted for the purpose.

From their platform a stair descended into the house, and the children and the Wizard explored it after lighting a lantern to show them the way.

With his lighted lantern in his hand, he went up and down the rough hills calling for his lambs.

Nearly 25 metres higher up still is the lantern, with a gallery 5 metres in diameter.

Corridors punctuated by lantern stretched in each direction off the room.

The church is cruciform and the altar stands beneath the eastern lantern arch, a fine rood screen separating off the choir, which was devoted to monastic use, while the nave was kept for the parishioners, in consequence of a dispute between the vicar and the monastery in 1499.

The lantern said to be Guy Fawkes's is in the Bodleian library at Oxford.

So he carried the lantern back for quite a distance, while Dorothy and the Wizard followed at his side.

When they arrived at the catacombs, Frederick took the lantern from his manservant and instructed him to wait.

The principal apartment is generally paved with marble; in the centre a decorated lantern is suspended over a fountain, while round the sides are richly inlaid cabinets and windows of stained glass; and in a recess is the divan, a low, narrow, cushioned seat.

So he placed Dorothy upon one side of him and the boy upon the other and set a lantern upon each of their heads.

You also won't need to find an alternate place to hang your lantern.

In this case the central court is roofed over, and has an octagon lantern in the centre; the recesses are covered with horizontal ceilings carried on great beams, the whole being elaborately carved, coloured and gilded; the tomb is covered with the later type of dome, built in stone, and elaborately carved outside with delicate conventional patterns in relief.

The cucujo or Cuban firefly (Pyrophorus noctilucus) gives out so strong a light that a few of them serve effectively as a lantern.

Four columns supported the roof, the central part of which probably rose above the rest like a medieval "lantern."

This is effected by a collective lens; it may be compared with the second part of the condenser system of a projecting lantern.

We had six bullocks and four men with the wagon and our own boy Daudi, who carried the lantern till daylight came.

Emerging from the shadows a city guardsman raised a lantern and stared at Trimus and the others.

The front of the house has a climbing hydrangea and there are lantern lights and sensor lights.

Watch, and as soon as the soldiers are ready to start, hang a lantern in the tower of the old North Church.

The battery in the lantern might be dead or the fall might have broken it.

Bordeaux paused and lit the lantern.

It somewhat resembles the completed tower of Antwerp cathedral, and is crowned by a graceful octagonal lantern, the whole being nearly 290 ft.

Above this is a lantern support feature incorporating decorative cast ironwork.

Already the cartoonists are portraying Brown as a kind of Dr. Hyde figure Ð a dark and threatening character with a lantern jaw.

He has in addition a very good set of slides for a magic lantern.

Powered by a long- lasting amber led, our solar lantern stays lit all night on a single day of full sun.

Once printed, the dragons can be colored and decorated before it is assembled into the lantern.

The end of the New Year period is marked with the Festival of Lanterns which celebrates with singing, dancing and lantern shows.

Distraught, she lay down on the bed and stared at the flame in the lantern.

Stricken with terror, Ivor thought he could see goblins and hobgoblins grinning wherever his lantern light flashed.

Don't throw out that old lampshade - stripped of its fabric it makes an excellent wire frame for creating an individual lantern cloche.

A hanging lantern sheds its light On Joseph's anxious face.

It starts with the octagonal lantern topped by a gallery, then follows the spiral.

There you go - your very own Chinese lantern.

I entered and found he was reading the proofs of the Gospel by a kerosene lantern.

Bring a candle lantern or flashlight to read the carol sheet.

Chorlton Water Park hosted the first of what the wardens hope will become an annual lantern parade.

The heat source being a paraffin soaked rag suspended under the Lantern.

Thieves at work in the Green Lantern hide a stolen wallet in Charlie's outdoor sleeping place.

Sheets of mica are used as a surface for painting, especially in India; for lantern slides; for carrying photographic films; as a protective covering for pictures and historical documents; for mounting soft and collapsible natural history specimens preserved in spirit; for the vanes of anemometers; mirrors of delicate physical instruments; for various optical and many other purposes.

A large Jack O ' Lantern with a jagged smile smirked back at her from the neighbor 's porch.

No one really knows where the art of punched tin originated, but it is widely believed that the lantern used in the famous Paul Revere ride was a punched metal design.

Wavy floor lamps, bubble floor lamps, flower floor lamps, vine or tree branch floor lamps and lantern floor lamps all make good accent lighting.

Using black gel food coloring, draw a jack o' lantern on the top.

Reynolds was named "The Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine in 2010, and his appearance in a skin-tight body stocking for the film The Green Lantern has only furthered his appeal.

Reynolds is confirmed to be playing the lead role in the 2011 film, The Green Lantern, based on the comic series.