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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Revamp :: Revamp (v. t.) To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct..
Quarter :: Quarter (n.) That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp..
Vamper :: Vamper (v. i.) To swagger; to make an ostentatious show.
Recoction :: Recoction (n.) A second coction or preparation; a vamping up.
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..
Vamplate :: Vamplate (n.) A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand..
Vampirism :: Vampirism (n.) Fig.: The practice of extortion.
Vamp :: Vamp (n.) The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper..
Vampirism :: Vampirism (n.) The actions of a vampire; the practice of bloodsucking.
Vamped :: Vamped (imp. & p. p.) of Vam.
Desmodont :: Desmodont (n.) A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire..
Vampire :: Vampire (n.) Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially V. spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire..
Vamp :: Vamp (v. i.) To advance; to travel.
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..
Vamp :: Vamp (n.) Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t..
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..
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.) Belief in the existence of vampires.
Upper :: Upper (n.) The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.
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