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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Ghoulish :: Ghoulish (a.) Characteristic of a ghoul; vampirelike; hyenalike.
Upper :: Upper (n.) The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.
Leaf-nosed :: Leaf-nosed (n.) Having a leaflike membrane on the nose; -- said of certain bats, esp. of the genera Phyllostoma and Rhinonycteris. 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..
Vamp :: Vamp (n.) Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t..
Vamp :: Vamp (n.) The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper..
Vamped :: Vamped (imp. & p. p.) of Vam.
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.
Vampirism :: Vampirism (n.) The actions of a vampire; the practice of bloodsucking.
Haematophlina :: Haematophlina (n. pl.) A division of Cheiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. See Vampire..
Vampirism :: Vampirism (n.) Fig.: The practice of extortion.
Vampire :: Vampire (n.) Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.
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..
Quarter :: Quarter (n.) That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp..
Vamper :: Vamper (n.) One who vamps; one who pieces an old thing with something new; a cobbler.
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..
Recoction :: Recoction (n.) A second coction or preparation; a vamping up.
Vamping :: Vamping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vam.
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..
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