This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

n. An often portable case with transparent or translucent sides for holding and protecting a light.

n. A decorative casing for a light, often of paper.

n. A light and its protective or decorative case.

n. The room at the top of a lighthouse where the light is located.

n. Obsolete A lighthouse.

n. A structure built on top of a roof or dome with open or windowed walls to admit light and air.

n. A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.

v. To furnish with a lantern.

n. 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.

n.

n. An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.

n. A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.

n. 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.

n. A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion (below).

n. 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.

n. A perforated barrel to form a core upon.

n. See Aristotle's lantern.

v. To furnish with a lantern.

n. A case, generally transparent or translucent, inclosing a light and protecting it from the wind and rain, and either portable or fixed.

n. The glass casing surrounding the lamp of a lighthouse and forming the upper member of the structure.

n. In architecture, specifically, an upright skylight in the roof of a building.

n. In the quadrant electrometer, the part of the case of the instrument which surrounds the mirror and suspension-fibers.

n. A device for inclosing fabrics in the process of dyeing, to fix the colors by the aid of steam.

n. A workmen's name for a short perforated core used in making hollow castings.

n. A kind of cog-wheel. See lantern-wheel.

n. The whiff, a fish, which is semi-transparent when held up against the light.

n. The Trigla obscura, a fish of the subfamily Triglinæ. Also called lantern-gurnard.

To furnish with a lantern; light as by means of a lantern: as, to lantern a lighthouse.

To put to death by hanging to a lamp-post (French lanterne): a frequent incident during the first French revolution.

n. The misshapen proboscis (formerly supposed to be luminous) of many tropical Fulgoridæ or so-called ‘lantern-flies.’

n. light in a transparent protective case

"Ignoring his role and starting with another lantern is just silly."

lantern wheel   

lamp   

projecting-lantern    ballarat lantern    chinese lantern    dark lantern    navy lantern    ardois lantern    feast of lanterns    lantern and candle-light    fresnel lantern    aristotle's lantern   

lantern brass    Aristotle's lantern   

dark lantern    bull's-eye    Chinese lantern    jack-o'-lantern   

lanterned    lanterning   

lamp    torch    flashlight    chandelier    bulb    mirror    tent    knife    beam    vase