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Jack-with-a-lantern   Listen
noun
Jack-with-a-lantern, Jack-o'-lantern  n.  
1.
(Biol.) A large orange-colored luminescent mushroom, Clitocybe illudens, also classified as Omphalotus olearius. It is poisonous and is sometimes found on hardwood tree stumps.
Synonyms: jack-a-lantern, Clitocybe illudens.
2.
A pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground; an ignis fatuus; a will-o'-the-wisp. "(Newspaper speculations) supplying so many more jack-o'-lanterns to the future historian."
Synonyms: friar's lantern, ignis fatuus, will-o'-the-wisp.
3.
A lantern carved from a hollowed-out pumpkin, with holes cut in the rind and so shaped that when it is illuminated by a candle inside, the features of a human face, cat's face, etc. appear in a glowing yellow color. It is used mostly as a decoration at Halloween.






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"Jack-with-a-lantern" Quotes from Famous Books



... chrysanthemums, and at one end was a raised platform, like a throne, on which stood a large armchair draped with a red velvet portiere. Above this was a semicircular canopy cleverly made of cornstalks and bunches of grain and up on the very top was the biggest pumpkin you ever saw cut like a jack-o'-lantern. ...
— Patty Fairfield • Carolyn Wells

... that they are shifting that camp fire all the time," he growled, as he clambered upon an elevation, and was again disappointed to find it so far away. "Blamed if it don't look as if somebody was playing a trick on me. I've heard of a jack-o'-lantern bobbing around in that style, but ...
— Through Apache Lands • R. H. Jayne



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