Lantern

Lantern jawed

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

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...

Sciopticon

A kind of magic lantern...

Phantasmagoria

An optical effect produced by a magic lantern The figures are painted in transparent colors and all the rest of the glass is opaque black The screen is between the spectators and the instrument and the figures are often made to appear as in motion or to merge into one another...

Megascope

A modification of the magic lantern projector used esp for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen solar or artificial light being used...

magic lantern

An early form of slide projector...

Lanthorn

See Lantern...

Something inclosing a light and protecting it from wind rain etc sometimes portable as a closed vessel or case of horn perforated tin glass oiled paper or other material having a lamp or candle within sometimes fixed as the glazed inclosure of a street light or of a lighthouse light...

Lamp post

A post generally a pillar of iron supporting a lamp or lantern for lighting a street park etc...

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