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1. Vampire
   Vampire is British slang for an extortionist.
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2. Vampire
   Vampire is British slang for an extortionist.
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3. Vampire
   HMAS Vampire was an Australian flotilla leader destroyer of 1100 tons displacement built in Britain in 1917, she saw action as a flotilla leader during the Great War and was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in 1932. HMAS Vampire carried a complement of 134 and was powered by oil burning boil...
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4. vampire
   [n] - (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
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5. vampire
   In Hungarian and Slavonic folklore, an `undead` corpse that sleeps in its coffin by day and sucks the blood of the living by night, often in the form of a bat. Dracula is a vampire in popular...
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6. Vampire
   Vam'pire noun [ French vampire (cf. Italian vampiro , G. & Dutch vampir ), from Servian vampir .] [ Written also vampyre .] 1. A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come fr...
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7. vampire
   1. A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the ye...
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8. vampire
   lamia noun (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living
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9. Vampire
   • (n.) Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, a...
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10. vampire
    in popular legend, a bloodsucking creature, supposedly the restless soul of a heretic, criminal, or suicide, that leaves its burial place at night, ... [1 related articles]
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11. vampire
    vampire, in folklore, animated corpse that sucks the blood of humans. Belief in vampires has existed from the earliest times and has given rise to an amalgam of legends and superstitions. They were most commonly thought of as spirits or demons that left their graves at night to seek and enslave thei...
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12. Vampire
    In Slav mythology, a Vampire is a nocturnal demon. It is manifested in various forms, the most usual being that of the spirit of the recently dead, or a demon occupying the dead body, returning to suck the blood of the living. Examination of a body thus demonstrating its vampirism would reveal a fre...
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13. vampire
    In Hungarian and Slavonic folklore, an `undead` corpse that sleeps in its coffin by day and sucks the blood of the living by night, often in the form of a bat. Dracula is a vampire in popular fiction, based on the creation of Bram Stoker. The victims are generally said to become vampires themselves over time
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14. Vampire
    `Vampires` are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of living creatures, regardless of whether they are accessdate=2007-12-29-->--><ref name="Cremene89">Créméné, Mythologie du Vampire, p.&nbsp;89...
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15. Vampire
    (disambiguation) A `vampire` is an undead creature in legend and fiction. `Vampire` may also refer to: General: Science and technology: Military: Fiction: ;Mythologies Entertainment: See also:
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16. Vampire
    (theorem prover) `Vampire` is an automatic theorem prover for first-order classical logic developed in the Computer Science Department of the University of Manchester by Prof. Andrei Voronkov together with Kryštof Hoder and previously with Dr. Alexandre Riazanov. So far it has won the &quo...
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17. Vampire
    (Marvel Comics) `Vampires` are fictional characters found in the Marvel Universe. History: They were created roughly 15,000 years ago when a small band of sorcerers from the legendary city of Atlantis discovered a book known as the Darkhold, an indestructible text filled with arcane lore and ...
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18. Vampire
    (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the `vampire` is an undead creature. A humanoid or monstrous humanoid can become a vampire, and looks as it did in life, with pale skin, haunting red eyes, and a feral cast to its features. A new vampire ...
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19. Vampire
    (roller coaster) `Vampire` is an Arrow suspended swinging roller coaster at Chessington World of Adventures theme park in London, England. It opened in 1990 in the new Transylvania area, and was designed by John Wardley. It originally featured bat-themed trains, which were later replaced with...
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20. Vampire
    (car) The `Vampire` is a turbojet-propelled car that currently holds the outright abbr=on--> on July 5, 2000 at RAF Elvington|Elvington, Yorkshire, England. long and consumed from 7 to 10 UK gallons of fuel per mile. Powered by a Bristol-Siddeley Orpheus|Rolls-Royce Orpheus abbr=on--> ...
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21. Vampire
    (Middle-earth) In J. R. R. Tolkien`s fantasy writings, the term `vampire` is used loosely to designate mysterious bat-like creatures serving Morgoth and Sauron. Almost nothing is known about them, though Tolkien does name one: Thuringwethil. Sauron also took the shape of a vampire on at least...
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22. Vampire
    (Blade) In Marvel Comics` Blade universe, `vampires` (homines nocturnae) are a sub-offshoot of humanity descended from Drake (also known as Dracula or Dagon), a Sumerian who was worshipped as a god. His progeny are known as "Pure-Bloods", while those beings who are bit...
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23. Vampire
    (Kinoko Nasu) In the world created by Kinoko Nasu and used in various works by Type-Moon, the term `Vampire` is used as a common denominator for most kinds of bloodsucking species predominant in occidental regions. Though they share some similarities, these vampires are significantly differen...
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24. Vampire
    (card game) `Vampire` is a vampire-themed card game designed by Reiner Knizia. The goal is to meld sets of vampires from six different suits. The game ends when all cards have been drawn, or a player has melded vampires from all six suits, and the winner is the player with the most points. External links:
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