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

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..

Vamp :: Vamp (n.) The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper..

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..

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

Haematophlina :: Haematophlina (n. pl.) A division of Cheiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. See Vampire..

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

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..

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

Sanguivorous :: Sanguivorous (a.) Subsisting upon blood; -- said of certain blood-sucking bats and other animals. See Vampire.

Bat :: Bat (n.) One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire..

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

Vamping :: Vamping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vam.

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

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

Vampire :: Vampire (n.) Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.

Desmodont :: Desmodont (n.) A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire..

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

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

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

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