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n.
A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand.
imp. & p. p.
of Vamp
n.
One who vamps; one who pieces an old thing with something new; a cobbler.
n.
Fig.: The practice of extortion.
v. i.
To advance; to travel.
v. i.
To swagger; to make an ostentatious show.
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.
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.
n.
The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.
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.
n.
The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.
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.
n.
Having a leaflike membrane on the nose; -- said of certain bats, esp. of the genera Phyllostoma and Rhinonycteris. See Vampire.
n.
The actions of a vampire; the practice of bloodsucking.
n.
That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp.
n.
Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Vamp
n.
Belief in the existence of vampires.
a.
Subsisting upon blood; -- said of certain blood-sucking bats and other animals. See Vampire.
n.
Any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. See Vamp, v. t.
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