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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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..
Desmodont :: Desmodont (n.) A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire..
Vamping :: Vamping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vam.
Vamped :: Vamped (imp. & p. p.) of Vam.
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..
Revamp :: Revamp (v. t.) To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct..
Ghoulish :: Ghoulish (a.) Characteristic of a ghoul; vampirelike; hyenalike.
Vamplate :: Vamplate (n.) A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand..
Recoct :: Recoct (v. t.) To boil or cook again; hence, to make over; to vamp up; to reconstruct..
Vampirism :: Vampirism (n.) Fig.: The practice of extortion.
Vamp :: Vamp (n.) Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t..
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.
Quarter :: Quarter (n.) That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp..
Vampirism :: Vampirism (n.) Belief in the existence of vampires.
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.
Vamper :: Vamper (v. i.) To swagger; to make an ostentatious show.
Haematophlina :: Haematophlina (n. pl.) A division of Cheiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. 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.
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