1. lantern - Noun
2. lantern - Adjective
3. lantern - Verb
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.
An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
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.
A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion (below).
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.
A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
See Aristotle's lantern.
To furnish with a lantern; as, to lantern a lighthouse.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher. William Butler Yeats
... the Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white light burning in the forests of America. Richard Brautigan
Rather ten thousand lanterns from a wealthy man than one lantern from a poor man. Japanese Proverb
A patient woman can roast an ox with a lantern. Chinese Proverb
The unlucky are unlucky even if they hang a lantern on their head. Jordanian Proverb