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Vampire :: Vampire (n.) Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored..

Vamplate :: Vamplate (n.) A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand..

Vamper :: Vamper (n.) One who vamps; one who pieces an old thing with something new; a cobbler.

Leaf-nosed :: Leaf-nosed (n.) Having a leaflike membrane on the nose; -- said of certain bats, esp. of the genera Phyllostoma and Rhinonycteris. See Vampire..

Vamper :: Vamper (v. i.) To swagger; to make an ostentatious show.

Revamp :: Revamp (v. t.) To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct..

Vampire :: Vampire (n.) A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730..

Vampire :: Vampire (n.) Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially V. spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire..

Recoct :: Recoct (v. t.) To boil or cook again; hence, to make over; to vamp up; to reconstruct..

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp..

Vampirism :: Vampirism (n.) The actions of a vampire; the practice of bloodsucking.

Lamia :: Lamia (n.) A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch..

Vampirism :: Vampirism (n.) Fig.: The practice of extortion.

Vampirism :: Vampirism (n.) Belief in the existence of vampires.

Devilfish :: Devilfish (n.) A huge ray (Manta birostris / Cephaloptera vampyrus) of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera.

Vamp :: Vamp (n.) Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t..

Ghoulish :: Ghoulish (a.) Characteristic of a ghoul; vampirelike; hyenalike.

Recoction :: Recoction (n.) A second coction or preparation; a vamping up.

Vamped :: Vamped (imp. & p. p.) of Vam.

Upper :: Upper (n.) The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.

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