lanternn.
/ˈlantən/, U.S. /ˈlæn(t)ərn/ 1.
a. A transparent case, e.g. of glass, horn, talc, containing and protecting a light. For blind, bull's eye, Chinese, friar's lantern, see those words. Also dark lantern n. 1a, magic lantern n.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > lantern
lanternc1385
thief-catcher1851
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Dido. 926 I shal as I can ffolwe thyn lanterne as thow gost byforn.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15847 Quarfor haf yee taken me, And als a theif vm-soght Wit lantern.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12910 He þe chess als his lanter Be-for his face þe light to bere [Gött. lantern: bern].
a1400–50 Alexander 5398 Liȝt lemand eȝen as lanterns he had.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 1255 Lyk till lawntryns it illuminyt sa cler.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1376/2 The said lanthorne to be mainteined by those two widowes that shall haue the hanging of them out.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 460 It is like a sliuer of the Muscouy glasse whereof we vse to make Lanthorns.
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes v. xii. 289 Alas, what serves our reason, But, like dark lanthornes, to accomplish Treason With greater closenesse?
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Lantern..it is by mistake often written lanthorn.
1756 T. Nugent Grand Tour II. 238 The streets are..well furnished with lanthorns for the winter nights.
1816 C. Wolfe Burial Sir J. Moore 8 By the struggling moon-beam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xiii. 89 Our poop lanthorns were so large that the men used to get inside them to clean them.
1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere xvi. 140 Fishing up a lanthorn he turned the light on her face.
b. †lantern and candle-light: the old cry of the London bellman at night. Hence †lantern and candle man: a bellman.
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society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] > announcer or proclaimer > town crier or bellman
criera1387
bellman1391
beadlec1432
forcriera1440
common crier1535
town crier1560
lantern and candle man1592
night-walker1699
yelper1725
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. D4 It is saide Laurence Lucifer, that you went vp and downe London crying then like a lanterne and candle man.
1600 T. Heywood Edward IV i. (1613) C No more calling of lanthorne and candle light.
1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. I2v Dost roare bulchin? dost roare? th'ast a good rounciuall voice to cry Lanthorne & Candle-light.
c. Proverbs. †to bear the lantern: to show the way as a leader.
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a1483 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 283 Of alle the remes in the worlde this beryth the lanterne.
1562 J. Heywood Sixt Hundred Epigrammes xxx, in Wks. sig. Cciii A Lanthorne and a light mayde: manerly sayde.
1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 2 They need not my Commendations, unless I would, according to the Proverb, Shew the Sun with a Lanthorn.
1827 T. Carlyle Note Bk. Jan. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years (1882) I. xx. 374 To prove the existence of God, as Paley has attempted to do, is like lighting a lantern to seek for the sun.
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d. spec. = magic lantern n. Chiefly attributive (see Compounds 1a).
2.
a. transferred. Now rare.
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the world > matter > light > illumination > [noun] > one who or that which illuminates
lightc1325
alumerea1350
lanternc1374
lightenera1382
light-givera1382
light-makera1425
illuminera1500
illuminator1598
illuminant1644
emblazer1776
luminant18..
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 543 O lanterne, of which queint is þi light.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvi. xii. (Tollem. MS.) In a temple of Venus is made a candelstik, on þe whiche was a lantarne so brennynge þat [etc.].
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iii. ix. 91 Lyk onto the lantrin of the mone.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. ii. xii. f. 18/1 Vtheris..beleuit..that the..lanternis of ye heuyn, war verray goddis.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper i. 25 Others [Nero] staked through, rosined and waxened over their bodies, and so set them lighted up, as torches and lanthornes to passengers.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 24 The Gloworm..This is that Night Animal with its Lanthorn in its tail.
1880 W. Watson Prince's Quest 92 And now the moon her lanthorn had withdrawn.
b. figurative. Applied to things metaphorically giving light. †Formerly often of persons.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > famous or eminent person > [noun]
kingeOE
master-spiritc1175
douzepersc1330
sire1362
worthya1375
lantern1382
sira1400
greatc1400
noblec1400
persona1425
lightc1425
magnate?a1439
worthyman1439
personagec1460
giant1535
honourablec1540
triedc1540
magnifico1573
ornament1573
signor1583
hero1592
grandee1604
prominent1608
name1611
magnificent1612
choice spirita1616
illustricity1637
luminary1692
lion1715
swell1786
notable1796
top-sawyer1826
star1829
celebrity1831
notability1832
notoriety1841
mighty1853
tycoon1861
reputation1870
public figure1871
star turn1885
headliner1896
front-pager1899
legend1899
celeb1907
big name1909
big-timer1917
Hall of Famer1948
megastar1969
1382 J. Wyclif Psalms cxviii[i]. 105 Lanterne to my feet thi woord, and liȝ t to myn pathis.
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 171 Two lanternes of þe world..Lanfranc, and Anselme.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 1046 Þe lombe her lantyrne with~outen drede.
?a1412 J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Merc. 454 His lives lanterne, staff of his crokyd age.
1423 Kingis Quair lxxi And [Muses] with ȝour bryght lanternis conuoye My pen, to write my turment and my Ioye.
?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. hh.iv O geme of gentylnes and lanterne of plasure.
1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 31 Those that shuld haue bene the lanterns to others.
1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. To his Brethren, sig. ¶.viii Galen the Lanterne of all Chirurgions.
1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Time in Complaints 169 Camden!..lanterne unto late succeeding age.
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xviii. sig. L5 Extreme pouertie one calls a Lanthorne, that lights vs to all miseries.
1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy 99 This great lanthorn of medicine is become very rich.
1874 G. Bancroft Footpr. of Time i. 38 The lantern of science has guided us on the track of time.
3. † a. A lighthouse.† c. Some part of a ship.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > buoys, marks, or lighthouses > [noun] > object on land or sea as guide > light beacon or lighthouse
fire towereOE
lightc1425
firehouse1450
pharec1450
pharos1550
light tower1588
lantern1601
watchtower1601
lighthouse1606
lowlight1655
sea-light1691
obeliscolychny1694
light1791
leading light1796
cage1867
flare1883
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 110 In truth it [a watch-tower] serueth in right good stead as a Lanthorne.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 40 Vpon the shore there is an high Lanterne, large enough at the top to containe about threescore persons, which by night directeth the sailer into the entrance of the Bosphorus.
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 258 Caprea, where the Lanthorn fix'd on high Shines like a Moon through the benighted Sky, While by its Beams the wary Sailor steers.
b. The chamber at the top of a lighthouse, in which the light is placed.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > buoys, marks, or lighthouses > [noun] > object on land or sea as guide > light beacon or lighthouse > room containing
light room1731
lantern1796
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 440 Within that stands the lanthorn.
1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. II. xxxv. 9 The height..measured from its base to the top of the lanthorn, is sixty-nine feet.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. II. 320 The bird..was carried against the lantern in a gale.
1882 Standard 23 May The height of the new tower above high water to the middle of the lanthorne is 130 feet.
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1661 S. Pepys Diary 17 Jan. (1970) II. 16 The Soverayne..is a most noble ship:..all went into the Lanthorne together.
4. Architecture. An erection, either square, circular, elliptical, or polygonal, on the top either of a dome or of an apartment, having the sides pierced, and the apertures glazed, to admit light; a similar structure serving as a means of ventilation, or for any other purpose. In quots. 16001, 16002 used to translate Latin culmen and fastigium.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > louvre or lantern
louvre1367
lanternc1406
lantern-light1823
sky lantern1860
lantern roof1882
c1406 in J. Raine Hist. Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres (1839) 144 Hic etiam magnam partem campanilis, vulgo lantern, minsterii Eboracensis construxit.
a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) 151 The spyre of the churche is a curyous and a right goodly lantren.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. x. xxiii. 368 The image of Iupiter himselfe in the lanterne or frontispice of the Capitoll.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxvii. iii. 946 Both the lanterne, yea and the leaved dores thereof, were foully disfigured.
a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 174 A tower-like building, almost like your lanthorns in college halls.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 291 Upon which tower a short spire rises, with its base fixed on a broad lanthern.
a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1821) I. 521 The prospect of this town, and its environs, is taken completely from the lantern of the State-House.
1833 E. Bulwer-Lytton Godolphin III. xviii. 172 Lady Erpingham was in the lantern of the House of Commons.
5. A name of certain fishes (cf. lantern-fish n. at Compounds 2).
a. The whiff, Arnoglossus megastomus.
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1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 100 Lanterns: Lug aleth Cornubiensibus.
1686 F. Willughby & J. Ray De Hist. Piscium iv. 102 Arnoglossus..species illa quam piscatores nostri Cornubienses à pelluciditate sua a Lantern..vocant.
b. ? U.S. A species of gurnard, Trigla obscura.
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1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 22 Arnoglossus megastoma,..Names,.. lantern, referring to its semi-transparency when held up against the light.
6.
a. The luminous appendage of the lantern-fly.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Fulgoridae > proboscis
lantern1750
1750 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds III. 120 The Fly, I take to be a Kind of Fire-Fly, and that Part on his Head, the Lanthorn.
1810 A. von Sack Voy. Surinam 279 From the head rises a large proboscis of an oval form, but tapering most towards the head, and making one third of the whole size of the insect, which is vulgarly called the lantern, emitting a bright light.
b. lantern of Aristotle n. [derived from Aristotle Hist. Anim. iv. v. (Bekker p. 531) where the body of the echinus is said to be shaped like the frame of a lantern (λαμπτήρ)] see quots.
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1861 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 3) viii. 196 Dental system of Echinus. 1. Represents three of the pyramidal pieces forming the ‘lantern of Aristotle’ in situ.
1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (1880) xvii. 198 In Echinus this [masticating apparatus] consists of five long calcareous rod-like teeth, which perforate five triangular pyramids, the whole forming a singular structure known as ‘Aristotle's Lantern’.
7. Technical uses.
a. Calico-printing, etc. A steam chamber in which the colours of printed fabrics are fixed.
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1839 in A. Ure Dict. Arts 233.
b. The part of the case of the quadrant electrometer which surrounds the mirror and suspension-fibres.
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1872 W. Thomson Electrostatics & Magn. 263 Plate 1 fig. 1 represents the front elevation of the instrument, of which the chief bulk consists of a jar of white glass..supported on three legs by a brass mounting, cemented round the outside of its mouth, which is closed by a plate of stout sheet-brass, with a lantern-shaped cover standing over a wide aperture in its centre. For brevity, in what follows these three parts will be called the jar, the main cover, and the lantern.
1889 in Cent. Dict.
c. Founding. ‘A perforated barrel to form a core upon’ (W.).
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 519 The lantern is a cylinder or a truncated hollow cone of cast iron, about half an inch thick; and differently shaped for every different core.
d. Mechanics. A form of cog-wheel (see quot. 1812). Also lantern-wheel.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear > lantern
wallower1548
trundle1611
trundle-head1611
lantern1659
lantern-wheel1787
trundle-wheel1800
lantern-pinion1881
1659 J. Leak tr. I. de Caus New Inventions Water-works 18 Near the end, there is..a Lanthorn or Pinion of 12. Staves.
1709 F. Hauksbee Physico-mech. Exper. 1 The Winch is fasten'd to a Spindle, that passes thro' a Lanthorn, whose Pins perform the Office of Cogs.
1805 Brewster in J. Ferguson Lect. I. 82 (note) A lantern.
1812 J. Playfair Outl. Nat. Philos. I. 75 Sometimes the smaller wheel is a cylinder, in which the top and bottom are formed by circles, connected by staves inserted..at equal distances along their circumferences; and it is then called a lantern, the staves serving as teeth.
1829 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. Mechanics ii. vii. 30 The teeth of the wheel, instead of working in the leaves of a pinion, are made to act upon a form of wheel called a lantern.
1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 126 The screw is slipped into a hole in a narrow-faced ‘lantern’.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. Simple attributive.
lantern fruitage n.
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1920 A. Huxley Leda 7 Moons of many-coloured light That swing their lantern-fruitage in the night.
lantern-glass n.
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1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 590 I see he has smashed the lantern glass again.
lantern-horn n.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > lantern > parts of or materials for making
horn1483
lantern-horn1543
lantern-leaves1714
1543 tr. Act 1 Rich. III c. 12 No merchaunt Straungier [shall]..brynge into this Realme of Englond to be sold any maner..lantern hornes.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 486 It is..semi-transparent, almost like lantern-horns.
lantern-post n.
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1871 J. Morley Condorcet in Crit. Misc. 61 Summary hangings at the nearest lantern-post.
b.
lantern entertainment n. see 1d.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > optical shows > [noun] > magic lantern show
phantasmagoria1801
dissolving views1846
lantern entertainment1890
magic-lantern show1897
1890 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 37 Lantern entertainments.
lantern lecture n.
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1912 W. Owen Let. 6 Feb. (1967) 114 Miss Lingley, brother, & friend, who are giving a Lantern Lecture on their tour among Korean Missions.
1938 L. MacNeice I crossed Minch ii. viii. 119 At the end of the service a lantern lecture was announced, which reminded me pleasantly of my childhood.
lantern-photograph n.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > optical shows > [noun] > magic lantern show > slide
slider?1793
magic lantern slide1802
slide1819
hyalotype1851
chromatrope1860
zoetrope1866
lantern slide1871
photo-hyalotype1875
wheel of colour1877
lantern-photograph1884
diapositive1893
1884 B'ham Daily Post 3 Nov. 7/3 Three of the members will demonstrate the processes of photography, by lantern-photographs..taken during the conversazione.
lantern-plate n.
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1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 291 Placing the negative in a printing frame, the lantern plate was laid upon it, film to film.
lantern-size adj.
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1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 66 Carriers, to carry quarter plates or lantern-size plates.
lantern slide n.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > optical shows > [noun] > magic lantern show > slide
slider?1793
magic lantern slide1802
slide1819
hyalotype1851
chromatrope1860
zoetrope1866
lantern slide1871
photo-hyalotype1875
wheel of colour1877
lantern-photograph1884
diapositive1893
1871 G. Fox in English Mechanic 13 Jan. 405/3 (heading) Lantern slides.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 8 Sept. 3/3 Amateur photographers are learning to make lantern slides from their own negatives.
1909 W. Owen Let. 4 Jan. (1967) 49 There was a Church Army Mission with lantern slides.
a1930 D. H. Lawrence Mod. Lover (1934) 179 Gilbert's..account of Mars, with lantern-slides, thrilled Woodhouse to the marrow.
c.
lantern roof n. see 4.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > louvre or lantern
louvre1367
lanternc1406
lantern-light1823
sky lantern1860
lantern roof1882
1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. ii. 46 Its wide shallow staircase, curiously carved balustrades, and lantern roof.
1967 Gloss. Caravan Terms (B.S.I.) 2 Lantern roof, a roof with raised centre portion usually throughout its length, the side walls of which are provided with windows and ventilators.
1969 Canad. Antiques Collector May 16/2 The Great Kitchen..has a lantern roof supported on four cast-iron columns.
lantern tower n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > turrets or pinnacles > specific type
lantern tower1615
lantern turreta1878
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 40 (in figure) F. the foote of the Lanterne Tower.
1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting I. v. 113 The Lantern-tower in the same cathedral.
lantern turret n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > turrets or pinnacles > specific type
lantern tower1615
lantern turreta1878
a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 262 The dome [of the Baptistery at Florence] had formerly an eye, like the Pantheon, but has now a lantern turret.
d. Objective.
lantern-bearer n.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > lantern > one who carries
lantern-bearer1565
lantern-man1599
lantern-carrier1611
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Laternarius, a lanterne bearer.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island i. v. 37 A rush was made upon the ‘Admiral Benbow’, the lantern-bearer following.
lantern-carrier n.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > lantern > one who carries
lantern-bearer1565
lantern-man1599
lantern-carrier1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Lanternier, a Lanterne-carrier.
lantern-maker n.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > lantern > one who makes
lanterner?1518
lantern-maker1598
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Lanternaro, a lanterne maker.
1668 H. More Divine Dialogues ii. 193 To prevent the Art of the Lantern-maker.
e. Instrumental.
lantern-fruited adj.
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1912 W. de la Mare Listeners 53 She rested her old eyes From the lantern-fruited yew trees.
lantern-led adj.
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1808 W. Scott Marmion iv. i. 187 Better we had through mire and bush Been lanthorn-led by Friar Rush.
lantern-lighted adj.
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1871 M. S. Jeune My School Days in Paris vii. 92 At midnight a procession, lantern-lighted, wound slowly through the garden-walks.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 14 July 2/3 And to our fog-bound window came A lantern-lighted ancient dame.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 13 June 3 In caves and cellars,..lantern-lighted, a multitude of people endure.
lantern-lit adj.
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1884 J. Colborne With Hicks Pasha in Soudan 218 We enjoyed our coffee al fresco in the cool lantern-lit garden.
C2. Special combinations. Also lantern-jaws n.† lantern-leaves n. Obsolete thin sheets of horn for lanterns.† lantern-lerry n. Obsolete ‘some trick of producing artificial light’ (Nares).† lantern-stairs n. Obsolete (see quot.).
lantern-bellows n. a kind of bellows resembling in structure a Chinese lantern.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Lantern-bellows, so called from its resemblance to a paper lantern.
lantern-braces n. (see quot.).
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Lantern-braces, iron bars to secure the lanterns.
lantern bug n. = lantern-fly n.; also figurative (see quot. 1774).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Fulgoridae
lantern-fly1753
lantern bug1774
fulgorid1878
1774 J. Burgoyne Maid of Oaks i. ii. 14 I would have put out Mr. Lanternbug's stars with one dash of my pincil.
1847 G. F. Ruxton Adventures Mexico & Rocky Mts. xix. 156 Of bugs and beetles there is endless variety—including the cocuyo or lantern-bug, and the tarantula.
1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. xi. 228 Many lantern bugs have this anterior prolongation of the head.
lantern-carrier n. (also lantern-bearer) = lantern-fly n.
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1810 A. von Sack Voy. Surinam 279 The Lantern Carrier..The Lantern Bearer.
lantern clock n. a 17th-century bracket clock worked by weights and surmounted by a bell in a frame.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > other types of clock
watch-clock1592
German clock1598
quarter clocka1631
wheel-clock1671
table clocka1684
month clock1712
astronomical clock1719
musical clock1721
repeater1725
Tompion1727
pulling clock1733
regulator1735
eight-day clock1741
regulator clock1750
French clock1757
repetition clock1765
day clock1766
striker1778
chiming clock1789
cuckoo-clock1789
night clock1823
telltale1827
carriage clock1828
fly-clock1830
steeple clock1830
telltale clock1832
skeleton clock1842
telegraph clock1842
star clock1850
weight-clock1850
prison clock1853
crystal clock1854
pillar scroll top clock1860
sheep's-head clock1872
presentation clock1875
pillar clock1880
stop-clock1881
Waterbury1882
calendar-clock1884
ting-tang clock1884
birdcage clock1886
sheep's head1887
perpetual calendar1892
bracket clock1894
Act of Parliament clock1899
cartel clock1899
banjo-clock1903
master clock1904
lantern clock1913
time clock1919
evolutionary clock1922
lancet clock1922
atomic clock1927
quartz clock1934
clock radio1946
real-time clock1953
organ clock1956
molecular clock1974
travelling clock2014
1913 L. V. Lockwood Furnit. Collectors' Gloss. 18/1 Clock..Chamber... These clocks are intended to hang high on the wall on brackets. Called also Lantern and Bird Cage clocks.
1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 161/2 Lantern clock: a clock of typically English design evolved in the early part of the 17th cent., and persisting, especially in the provinces, until well into the 18th cent... All original lantern clocks are weight driven.
1970 Canad. Antiques Collector Dec. 12/1 Lantern clocks..were designed to hang on the wall, and were weight driven and regulated by a balance wheel.
lantern-face n. ? = lantern-jaws n.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > cheek > [noun] > types of cheek
chuff1530
bladder chops1549
piper's cheeks1602
reds1616
lockram jaws1682
trumpet-cheek1693
lantern-jaws1711
lantern-face1795
1795 J. Wolcot Royal Tour 10 Lo, Pitt arrives! alas with lantern face!
lantern-fish n. the smooth sole.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Pleuronectiformes (flat-fish) > [noun] > family Pleuronectidae > genus Pleuronectes > pleuronectes megastoma (whiff)
whiff1713
lantern-fish1753
sail-fluke1882
carter1884
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Lantern fish.
1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 191 It [sc. the smooth sole] is a scarce species, but is found in Cornwall, where from its transparency, it is called the Lantern Fish.
1822 J. Couch in Linnæan Trans. 14 78 Carter, or Lanternfish, Pleuronectes megastoma..It is also called Marysole.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 33/2 Lanthorn fish, a smooth sole.
lantern-fly n. one of several species of insects of the family Fulgoridæ (see quots.).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Fulgoridae
lantern-fly1753
lantern bug1774
fulgorid1878
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Lantern fly.
1780 J. T. Dillon Trav. Spain App. 441 Those harmless insects called lanthorn flies.
1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 264 The Great Lantern-fly.
1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 191/1 The Chinese have the curious lantern-fly (Fulgora candelaria), with its long cylindrical proboscis, from the transparent sides of which a brilliant light appears.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > lantern > parts of or materials for making
horn1483
lantern-horn1543
lantern-leaves1714
1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 44 Lanthorn-Leaves, as mercery, per 100 Weight, 03 00.
1721 C. King Brit. Merchant I. 294 Lanthorn Leaves.
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1631 B. Jonson Inigo Jones 72 in Wks. II Smiling at his ffeat Of Lanterne-lerry.
lantern-light n. (a) the light from a lantern; (b) a ‘light’ (i.e. a glazed frame or sash) in the side of a lantern (sense 4); (c) an arrangement for giving light through the roof of an apartment.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > louvre or lantern
louvre1367
lanternc1406
lantern-light1823
sky lantern1860
lantern roof1882
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xii. 50 If men caste in to it a lanterne-light, it fletez abouen.
1814 R. Southey Roderick xxi. 139 Why 'twas in quest of such a man as this That the old Grecian searched by lanthorn light.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 188 With regard to the lighting of a grand stair-case, a lantern-light is the most appropriate.
1897 H. Caine Christian i. x. 47 There was a refreshment-room, with its lantern lights pulled open.
lantern-man n. one who carries a lantern, †spec. one who empties privies by lantern-light, a nightman.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > emptying or cleaning of privies > [noun] > one who
gong farmerc1302
dung farmer1546
nightman1579
jakes farmer1591
jakes barreller1596
lantern-man1599
gold-finder1611
poleman1615
night-farmer1620
jakesman1630
the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > lantern > one who carries
lantern-bearer1565
lantern-man1599
lantern-carrier1611
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 57 Wee..will make him tell what Lanterneman, or groome of Hecates close stoole hee is.
1813 Sporting Mag. 42 4 The lanthorn-man should be silent, nor show the light till at the place of sport.
1889 P. H. Emerson Eng. Idyls 89 Now he felt sure a lantern-man was approaching him.
lantern-pier n. ? a pier supporting a lantern (sense 4).
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1848 B. Webb Sketches Continental Ecclesiol. 98 The four evangelists are in niches over the lantern-piers.
lantern-pinion n. = lantern-wheel n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear > lantern
wallower1548
trundle1611
trundle-head1611
lantern1659
lantern-wheel1787
trundle-wheel1800
lantern-pinion1881
1881 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (ed. 4) 21 Lantern pinions work very smoothly as followers though they are unsuitable as drivers.
lantern-pump n. (see quot.).
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Lantern-pump, one having a pair of disks at the end of a flexible cylinder, like a Chinese lantern.
lantern-service n. a religious service during which magic-lantern slides are employed to furnish illustrations.
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1897 Church Times 20 Aug. 187/1 The lantern services, especially that on the ‘Life of Christ’, proved most helpful to the people.
lantern-shell n. the bivalve genus Anatina, with a translucent shell.
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1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 321 Anatina, Lamarck. Lantern-shell.
lantern-spar n. (see quot.).
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1777 Watson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 68 867 A piece of rhomboidal, otherwise called refracting or lantern spar, was broken into four smaller pieces.
lantern-sprat n. a sprat infested by a Lernæan parasite (see quot.).
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > sprattus sprattus (sprat) > infested by luminous parasites
lantern-sprat1880
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 233 This Lernea is luminous at night-time, and fishermen assert that shoals of sprats are often preceded by several of these fishes infested by parasites and which have occasioned their being termed ‘lanthorn sprats’.
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1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. liii. 234 Between every tower, in the midst of the said body of building, there was a paire of winding (such as we now call lantern) staires.
lantern test n. Ophthalmology a test for colour-blindness in which the subject is asked to name or match colours shown by a lantern.
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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > [noun] > kinds of eye-test
shadow test1884
koroscopy1887
lantern test1890
Stilling1896
1890 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 11 Jan. 73/2 The Lantern Test is the one which I recommend for the testing of sailors and railway employés.
1966 K. Wybar Ophthalmol. ii. 26 The Ishihara or Stilling Test... The tests are more subtle than the lantern tests and are of value in identifying the anomalous trichromats (of the protanomalous or deuteranomalous types) who are often able to pass the lantern tests successfully.
lantern-wheel n. = sense 7d.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear > lantern
wallower1548
trundle1611
trundle-head1611
lantern1659
lantern-wheel1787
trundle-wheel1800
lantern-pinion1881
1787 A. Young Jrnl. 28 May in Trav. France (1792) i. 11 The stone drawn up by lanthorn wheels of a great diameter.
1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 199 These parallel spokes are then connected together by bands of string, thus forming a kind of lantern-wheel.
Derivatives
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > lantern > one who makes
lanterner?1518
lantern-maker1598
?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vj Lanterners, stryngers, grynders.
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lanternv.
/ˈlantən/, U.S. /ˈlæn(t)ərn/ 1.
a. transitive. To enclose as in a lantern.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > in or as in other specific receptacle or enclosure
casea1525
to case up1566
chamber1568
bag1570
embower1580
cistern1587
bower1599
casket1603
entemple1603
immould1610
incavern1611
incave1615
chest1616
enchest1632
intrunk1633
labyrinth1637
caverna1640
cabinetc1642
ark1644
to box in1745
lantern1789
cauldron1791
cave1816
pocket1833
castle1871
1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II ii. 111 Prometheus..Stole..fire; And, lantern'd in his breast,..Bore the bright treasure to his Man of clay.
b. To furnish with a lantern; to light with a lantern.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [verb (transitive)] > supply with lamps or a lantern
lamp1602
lantern?1833
1799 R. Southey in Morning Post 28 June 3/1 Were it midnight, I should walk Self-lanthorn'd, saturate with sun-beams.
?1833 C. Lamb Lett. (1935) III. 406 I dreaded that Argus Portitor, who doubtless lanterned me out on that prodigious night.
1846 C. Maitland Church in Catacombs 227 If a Christian woman marries a Pagan..she must go in and out of a gate laurelled and lanterned.
2. To put to death by hanging upon a lamp-post. (= French lanterner.)
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1815 tr. V. J. E. de Jouy Paris Chit-chat II. 184 He was himself very near being lanterned in the streets of Paris by a group of the fauxbourg Saint Antoine.
1855 in Wright
1860 J. E. Worcester Dict. Eng. Lang. ; and in later Dicts.
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ˈlanterned adj. furnished with a lantern.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [adjective] > of or resembling a lamp > involving a lantern
lanterned1800
1800–24 T. Campbell Lines Grave Suicide 6 Nor will the lantern'd fisherman at eve Launch on that water.
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