1. an often portable case with transparent or translucent sides for holding and protecting a light.
2. A decorative casing for a light, often of paper.
3. A light and its protective or decorative case.
4. the room at the top of a lighthouse where the light is located.
5. obsolete A lighthouse.
6. A structure built on top of a roof or dome with open or windowed walls to admit light and air.

1. A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
2. to furnish with a lantern.

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.
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3. an open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
4. A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
5. 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.
6. A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. see lantern pinion (below).
7. 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.
8. A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
9. see aristotle's lantern.
10. to furnish with a lantern.

1. to furnish with a lantern; light as by means of a lantern: as, to lantern a lighthouse.
2. to put to death by hanging to a lamp-post (french lanterne): a frequent incident during the first french revolution.
3. A case, generally transparent or translucent, inclosing a light and protecting it from the wind and rain, and either portable or fixed.
4. the glass casing surrounding the lamp of a lighthouse and forming the upper member of the structure.
5. in architecture, specifically, an upright skylight in the roof of a building.
6. in the quadrant electrometer, the part of the case of the instrument which surrounds the mirror and suspension-fibers.
7. A device for inclosing fabrics in the process of dyeing, to fix the colors by the aid of steam.
8. A workmen's name for a short perforated core used in making hollow castings.
9. A kind of cog-wheel. see lantern-wheel.
10. the whiff, a fish, which is semi-transparent when held up against the light.
11. the Trigla obscura, a fish of the subfamily Triglinæ. also called lantern-gurnard.
12. the misshapen proboscis (formerly supposed to be luminous) of many tropical Fulgoridæ or so-called ‘lantern-flies.’

1. light in a transparent protective case