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Jawed

Having jaws chiefly in composition as lantern jawed...

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...

jacklight

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

Fresnel lamp

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

Femerell

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

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...

Buat

A lantern also the moon...

Mica

The name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage so that they readily separate into very thin leaves more or less elastic They differ widely in composition and vary in color from pale brown or yellow to green or black The transparent forms are used in lanterns the doors of stoves etc being popularly called isinglass Formerly called also cat silver and glimmer...

Semaphore

A signal telegraph an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns flags oscillating arms etc...

Equipment

Equipment, 'equipment', in relation to a ship, includes boats, tackle, pumps, apparel, furniture, life saving appliances of every description, spars, masts, rigging and sails, fog signals, lights, shapes and signals of distress, medicines and medical and surgical stores and appliances, charts, radio installations, appliances for preventing, detecting or extinguishing fires, buckets, compasses, axes, lanterns, loading and discharging gears and appliances of all kinds and all other stores or articles belonging to or to be used in connection with or necessary for the navigation and safety of the ship. [Merchant Shipping Act, 1958, (44 of 1958), s. 3(11)]The articles or implements used for a specific pur-pose or activity, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....

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