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and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral.

Having lantern jaws or long, thin jaws; as, a lantern-jawed person.

The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.

A lantern having a lamp surrounded by a hollow cylindrical Fresnel lens.

See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack.

See Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack. JACKPOT Jackpot

The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern and one forward.

A lantern; also, the moon. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

rmerly worn; also, the state of being curled. Earlocks in tight buckles on each side of a lantern face. W. Irving. Lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year. Addison.

A lantern, with a thick glass lens on one side for concentrating the light on any object; also, the lens itself. Dickens.

A device in a magic lantern or stereopticon to produce kaleidoscopic effects.

A machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 a second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture machine; also, any of several other mach…

A small structure standing on the top of a dome; a lantern.

im and is gradually replaced by another on the same field; -- an effect produced by magic lanterns.

s homicide. O thievish Night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars Milton. -- Fe*lo"ni`ous*ly, adv. -- Fe*lo"ni`ous*ness, n.

A lantern, or louver covering, placed on a roof, for ventilation or escape of smoke.

plant (Arisarum vulgare) with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl. -- Friar's lantern, the ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp. Milton. -- Friar skate (Zoöl.), the European white or sharpnosed skate (Raia alba); -- called also Burton skate, border ray, scad, and doctor.

e gas; -- popularly called also Will-with-the-wisp, or Will-o'-the-wisp, and Jack-with-a- lantern, or Jack-o'-lantern.

Shak. -- Jack the Giant Killer, the hero of a well-known nursery story. -- Jack-with-a-lantern, Jack-o'-lantern. (a) An ignis fatuus; a will-o'-the-wisp. "[Newspaper speculations] supplying so many more jack-o'-lanterns to the future historian." Lowell. (b) A lantern made of a pumpkin so prepared as to show in illum…

Having jaws; -- chiefly in composition; as, lantern-jawed. "Jawed like a jetty." Skelton.