Definition of vamp

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Vamp (v. t.) To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; -- often followed by up..

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Vampirism :: Vampirism (n.) Belief in the existence of vampires.
Vamper :: Vamper (n.) One who vamps; one who pieces an old thing with something new; a cobbler.
Vamp :: Vamp (v. t.) To provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; -- often followed by up..
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..
Vamper :: Vamper (v. i.) To swagger; to make an ostentatious show.
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.
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..
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.
Ghoulish :: Ghoulish (a.) Characteristic of a ghoul; vampirelike; hyenalike.
Sanguivorous :: Sanguivorous (a.) Subsisting upon blood; -- said of certain blood-sucking bats and other animals. See Vampire.
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..
Vamp :: Vamp (v. i.) To advance; to travel.
Vamping :: Vamping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vam.
Vamp :: Vamp (n.) Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t..
Vamped :: Vamped (imp. & p. p.) of Vam.
Vampirism :: Vampirism (n.) Fig.: The practice of extortion.
Desmodont :: Desmodont (n.) A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire..
Revamp :: Revamp (v. t.) To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct..
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