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Lamia

A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch.

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Vampire 92% connected

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…

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Anthropomorphist noun · 78% connection

One who attributes the human form or other human attributes to the Deity or to anything not human.

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Anthropomorphite noun · 78% connection

One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity. Taylor. Specifically, one of a sect of anci…

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Back noun · 78% connection

In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body…

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Bat noun · 78% connection

One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated finger…

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Bloodshed noun · 78% connection

The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.

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Desmodont noun · 78% connection

A member of a group of South American blood-sucking bats, of the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire.

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Eat verb · 78% connection

To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.

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Enchantress noun · 78% connection

A woman versed in magical arts; a sorceress; also, a woman who fascinates.

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Forewoman noun · 78% connection

A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman.

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Haematoblast noun · 78% connection

One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood…

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Haematophlina n. pl. · 78% connection

A division of Cheiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. See Vampire.

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Hag noun · 78% connection

A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard.

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Harpy noun · 78% connection

A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pa…

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Hemoglobin noun · 78% connection

The normal coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrate animals. It is composed of hematin and globulin, and is also call…

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Human adjective · 78% connection

Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human v…

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Hydra noun · 78% connection

A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off,…

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Jigger noun · 78% connection

larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation

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Leaf-nosed noun · 78% connection

Having a leaflike membrane on the nose; -- said of certain bats, esp. of the genera Phyllostoma and Rhinonycteris. See Vampire.

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