2. A game at cards, vulgarly called lambskinnet.
[They play] their little game of lansquenet.
Longfellow. Lant
(Lant) n. Urine. [Prov. Eng.] Nares.
Lant
(Lant), n. [Cf. Lance.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small, slender, marine fishes of the
genus Ammedytes. The common European species (A. tobianus) and the American species (A. Americanus)
live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait. Called also launce,
and sand eel.
Lant
(Lant), n. See Lanterloo. [Obs.] Halliwell.
Lantanium
(Lan*ta"ni*um Lan"ta*num) n. (Chem.) See Lanthanum.
Lantanuric
(Lan`ta*nu"ric) a. [Formed by transposition of the letters of allantoin and -uric.] (Chem.)
Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous organic acid of the uric acid group, obtained by the decomposition
of allantoin, and usually called allanturic acid.
Lanterloo
(Lan"ter*loo`) n. An old name of loo (a).
Lantern
(Lan"tern) n. [F. lanterne, L. lanterna, laterna, from Gr. lampth`r light, torch. See Lamp.]
1. Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc.; — sometimes portable, as a closed
vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle
within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light.
2. (Arch.) (a) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
(b) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
(c) A smaller 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.
3. (Mach.) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion
4. (Steam Engine) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate
the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc.; — called also
lantern brass.
5. (Founding) A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
6. (Zoöl.) See Aristotle's lantern.
Fig. 1 represents a hand lantern; fig. 2, an arm lantern; fig. 3, a breast lantern; — so named from the
positions in which they are carried.
Dark lantern, a lantern with a single opening, which may be closed so as to conceal the light; — called
also bull's-eye. — Lantern fly, Lantern carrier (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large, handsome,
hemipterous insects of the genera Laternaria, Fulgora, and allies, of the family Fulgoridæ. The largest
species is Laternaria phosphorea of Brazil. The head of some species has been supposed to be phosphorescent.
— Lantern jaws, long, thin jaws; hence, a thin visage. — Lantern pinion, Lantern wheel (Mach.),
a kind of pinion or wheel having cylindrical bars or trundles, instead of teeth, inserted at their ends in
two parallel disks or plates; — so called as resembling a lantern in shape; — called also wallower, or
trundle. — Lantern shell (Zoöl.), any translucent, marine, bivalve shell of the genus Anatina, and
allied genera. — Magic lantern, an optical instrument consisting of a case inclosing a light, and having
suitable lenses in a lateral tube, for throwing upon a screen, in a darkened room or the like, greatly magnified
pictures from slides placed in the focus of the outer lens.
