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Dark lantern   /dɑrk lˈæntərn/   Listen
noun
Lantern  n.  
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 (below).
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.
(Zool.) See Aristotle's lantern. Note: 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 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 (Zool.), 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.


adjective
Dark  adj.  
1.
Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion. "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!" "In the dark and silent grave."
2.
Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden. "The dark problems of existence." "What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain." "What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?"
3.
Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant. "The age wherein he lived was dark, but he Could not want light who taught the world to see." "The tenth century used to be reckoned by mediaeval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night."
4.
Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed. "Left him at large to his own dark designs."
5.
Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious. "More dark and dark our woes." "A deep melancholy took possesion of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature." "There is, in every true woman-s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."
6.
Deprived of sight; blind. (Obs.) "He was, I think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years." Note: Dark is sometimes used to qualify another adjective; as, dark blue, dark green, and sometimes it forms the first part of a compound; as, dark-haired, dark-eyed, dark-colored, dark-seated, dark-working.
A dark horse, in racing or politics, a horse or a candidate whose chances of success are not known, and whose capabilities have not been made the subject of general comment or of wagers. (Colloq.)
Dark house, Dark room, a house or room in which madmen were confined. (Obs.)
Dark lantern. See Lantern. The
Dark Ages, a period of stagnation and obscurity in literature and art, lasting, according to Hallam, nearly 1000 years, from about 500 to about 1500 A. D.. See Middle Ages, under Middle.
The Dark and Bloody Ground, a phrase applied to the State of Kentucky, and said to be the significance of its name, in allusion to the frequent wars that were waged there between Indians.
The dark day, a day (May 19, 1780) when a remarkable and unexplained darkness extended over all New England.
To keep dark, to reveal nothing. (Low)





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"Dark lantern" Quotes from Famous Books



... between Anne Radcliffe's dark-browed villain and his own cherubic personality recalls Scott's story about the picture of Lewis, by Saunders, which was handed round at Dalkeith House. "The artist had ingeniously flung a dark folding-mantle around the form, under which was half-hid a dagger, a dark lantern, or some cut-throat appurtenance; with all this, the features were preserved and ennobled. It passed from hand to hand into that of Henry, Duke of Buccleuch, who, hearing the general voice affirm that it was very ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
... said Racksole, 'and we shall want a few things, too. For instance, a dark lantern. I think I will go out and ...
— The Grand Babylon Hotel • Arnold Bennett
... very well know what was going to befall him, but he did not feel unsafe with John Farden, and besides, his lank frame was in the grasp of that big hand like a mouse in the power of a mastiff. So he let himself be hauled down the ladder, into an empty stall, where, behold, there was a dark lantern (which had been at bad work in its time), a pail, a brush, a bit of soap, and ...
— Friarswood Post-Office • Charlotte M. Yonge
... transcribed for the printer, from my shorthand notes, important public speeches in which the strictest accuracy was required, and a mistake in which would have been to a young man severely compromising, writing on the palm of my hand, by the light of a dark lantern, in a post-chaise and four, galloping through a wild country, and through the dead of the night, at the then surprising rate of fifteen miles an hour. The very last time I was at Exeter, I strolled into the castle yard there to identify, for the amusement of a friend, ...
— Speeches: Literary and Social • Charles Dickens
... night—no incident, or accident, but an alarm on the part of my valet on the outside, who, in crossing Epping Forest, actually, I believe, flung down his purse before a mile-stone, with a glow-worm in the second figure of number XIX—mistaking it for a footpad and dark lantern. I can only attribute his fears to a pair of new pistols wherewith I had armed him; and he thought it necessary to display his vigilance by calling out to me whenever we passed any thing—no matter whether moving or stationary. Conceive ten miles, with a tremor every furlong. I ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. II - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore


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