Lantern
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Lantern. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
or LANTHORN (lan'a heap turn), a common contrivance used for carrying a lamp or candle in, consisting Eski case or vessel made of tin, with of some transparent substance, of tin, with horn or glass. Lanterns are Int substance, spoken of by Theopompus, a Greek Lanterns are poet, and Empedocles of Agrigenepus, & Greek Lanterns were used by the ans of Agrigenin augury. The only representaby the anan Egyptian lantern that has My representadown to us probably did not differ fern that has from those spoken of in St. John did not differ , where the party of men which of in St. John out of Jerusalem to apprehend of men which in the garden of Gethsemane is deto apprehend as being provided " with lanterns semane is de with lantern architecture, a small structure on of a dome, or in other similar structure o , for the purpose of admitting other simila promoting ventilation, or for ornaof admittin of which that on the top of the or for orn at Washington may be referred to he top of t example. In Gothic architecture be referred is sometimes applied to louvres architectu roofs of halls, etc., but it usually fied to louv a tower which has the whole but it usua or a considerable portion of the as the wh , open to view from the ground, bortion of lighted by an upper tier of winn the grou tier of
The Encyclopedia of Founding (1892)
A term applied to a temporary drying apparatus for moulds during their course of construction. It is oftentimes called a lamp or drying-kettle. See DRYING-KETTLE.