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

One who vamps; one who pieces an old thing with something new; a cobbler.

n Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730. The persons who turn vampires are generally wizards, witches, suicides, and persons who have come to a violent end, or have been cursed by their parents or by the church, Encyc. Brit.

Belief in the existence of vampires.

A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand. [Written also vamplet.]

To vamp again; hence, topatch up; to reconstruct.

fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire. Bat tick (Zoöl.), a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus Nycteribia, parasitic on bats.

of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire.

A huge ray (Manta birostris or Cephaloptera vampyrus) of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera.

ack (Naut.), a coming up into the wind and filling away again on the same tack. -- False vampire (Zoöl.), the Vampyrus spectrum of South America, formerly erroneously supposed to have blood-sucking habits; -- called also vampire, and ghost vampire. The genuine blood-sucking bats belong to the genera Desmodus and Diphy…

Characteristic of a ghoul; vampirelike; hyenalike.

A division of Cheiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. See Vampire.

le of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a with.

the nose; -- said of certain bats, esp. of the genera Phyllostoma and Rhinonycteris. See Vampire.

That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp.

To boil or cook again; hence, to make over; to vamp up; to reconstruct. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

A second coction or preparation; a vamping up.

Subsisting upon blood; -- said of certain blood-sucking bats and other animals. See Vampire.

.), the topmost deck of any vessel; the spar deck. -- Upper leather, the leather for the vamps and quarters of shoes. -- Upper strake (Naut.), the strake next to the deck, usually of hard wood, and heavier than the other strakes. -- Upper ten thousand, or (abbreviated) Upper ten, the ten thousand, more or less, who…