Crossword-Solution: LANTERN
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| Lantern | n. | 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. |
| Lantern | n. | An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior. |
| Lantern | n. | A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns. |
| Lantern | n. | A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral. |
| Lantern | n. | A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion (below). |
| Lantern | n. | 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. ; -- called also lantern brass. |
| Lantern | n. | A perforated barrel to form a core upon. |
| Lantern | n. | See Aristotle's lantern. |
| Lantern | v. t. | To furnish with a lantern; as, to lantern a lighthouse. |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with LANTERN (5)
Peter pulled her beneath the water, for Hook had started up, crying, “What was that?” “I heard nothing,” said Starkey, raising the lantern over the waters, and as the pirates looked they saw a strange sight.
After a dozen trials he succeeded in lighting the lantern, which he placed in front of Alexandra, half covering it with a blanket so that the light would not shine in her eyes.
Oak extinguished the lantern by blowing into it and then pinching out the snuff, the cot being lighted by a candle suspended by a twisted wire.
Dimmesdale noted all these minute particulars, even while firmly convinced that the doom of his existence was stealing onward, in the footsteps which he now heard; and that the gleam of the lantern would fall upon him in a few moments more, and reveal his long-hidden secret.
She was not allowed to take a lamp upstairs, so Ray Kennedy gave her a railroad lantern by which she could read at night.
Quotes with LANTERN (3)
Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook
The world was in truth made of jackstraws. The world was very combustible, the human body was partible in ways heretofore unimagined. What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will. Civilization was not in the natural order but was some wort of willed invention held taut like a fabric or a sail against the chaos of the winds. And why we had invented it, or how we knew to invent it, was beyond him. Newmann had seen some truth that was …
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 58 times in crossword archives (1944–2024).