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Sconce :: Sconce (p. p.) A protection for a light; a lantern or cased support for a candle; hence, a fixed hanging or projecting candlestick..

Trundlehead :: Trundlehead (n.) One of the disks forming the ends of a lantern wheel or pinion.

Wallower :: Wallower (n.) A lantern wheel; a trundle.

Slide :: Slide (n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope..

Jawed :: "Jawed (a.) Having jaws; -- chiefly in composition; as, lantern-jawed..

Lantern :: 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..

Chromatrope :: Chromatrope (n.) A device in a magic lantern or stereopticon to produce kaleidoscopic effects.

Aristotle's Lantern :: Aristotle's lantern () The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.

Lantern :: Lantern (v. t.) To furnish with a lantern; as, to lantern a lighthouse..

Lantern :: Lantern (n.) See Aristotle's lantern.

Sciopticon :: Sciopticon (n.) A kind of magic lantern.

Jack-o''-lantern :: "Jack-o'-lantern (n.) See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack..

Fres''nel'' Lan''tern :: Fres'nel' lan'tern () A lantern having a lamp surrounded by a hollow cylindrical Fresnel lens.

Lanterned :: Lanterned (imp. & p. p.) of Lanter.

Buat :: Buat (n.) A lantern; also, the moon..

Rundle :: Rundle (n.) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

Femerell :: Femerell (n.) A lantern, or louver covering, placed on a roof, for ventilation or escape of smoke..

Lantern :: 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..

Trundle :: Trundle (v. i.) A lantern wheel. See under Lantern.

Screen :: Screen (n.) A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an image, as a picture, is thrown by a magic lantern, solar microscope, etc..

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