lanterned
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A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
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(theater) Especially, a metal casing with lens used to illuminate a stage (e.g. spotlight, floodlight).
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(architecture) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
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(architecture) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
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(architecture) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light.
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(rail transport) A light formerly used as a signal by a railway guard or conductor at night.
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(steam engines) 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.; a lantern brass.
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(engineering) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel.
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(zoology) Aristotle's lantern
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(metalworking) A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
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(transitive) To furnish with a lantern.
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Of a facial feature, large and squarish in shape as an old-fashioned lantern.
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