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Lantern jawed

Having lantern jaws or long thin jaws as a lantern jawed person...


VerbarIgnis fatuus

A phosphorescent light that appears in the night over marshy ground supposed to be occasioned by the decomposition of animal or vegetable substances or by some inflammable gas popularly called also Will with the wisp or Will o the wisp and Jack with a lantern or Jack o lantern...


Louver

A small lantern See Lantern 2 a...


Buat

A lantern also the moon...


Cinematograph

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 zooumlgyroscope zooumlpraxiscope etc...


Femerell

A lantern or louver covering placed on a roof for ventilation or escape of smoke...


Fresnel lamp

A lantern having a lamp surrounded by a hollow cylindrical Fresnel lens...


jacklight

A portable source of light as an oil lantern or electric light used as a lure for hunting at night...


Jack o lantern

A large orange colored luminescent mushroom Clitocybe illudens also classified as Omphalotus olearius It is poisonous and is sometimes found on hardwood tree stumps...


Jawed

Having jaws chiefly in composition as lantern jawed...


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