Synonym: lamia. Similar words: empire, revamp, damping, camping, champion, aspire, inspire, perspire. Meaning: ['væmpaɪə(r)] n. (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living.
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61 To be sure, today’s 20-something file-sharer may someday pay $200 to watch Vampire Weekend rock the Astrodome.
62 If looking good wasn't enough, Kate Beckinsale's vampire Selene spent her free time prowling the streets of some unname Eastern European city hunting werewolves.
63 The five-book arc will tell the story of the first American vampire, the murderous, bank-robbing 1880s cowboy Skinner Sweet.
64 A vampire bat came flapping in from the night covered in fresh blood and parked himself on the roof of the cave to get some sleep.
65 The kind of vampire I'm talking about is Desmodus rotundus,(www.Sentencedict.com) commonly known as the "vampire bat."
66 Such extreme all-or-nothing outcomes are far less common in the vampire and wizard canons.
67 These pop culture "fandoms" consist of enthusiasts for such familiar franchises as "Harry Potter, " "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Twilight, " as well as for other books, television shows and movies.
68 Alucard : But Belmont 's power is supreme among vampire hunters. None other could defeat him.
69 But like other protagonists of vampire stories, Mick's love is determined to be twisty.
70 A vampire bat comes back to his fellow vampires with a bloody mouth. They stare at him jealously and ask him where he got the blood.
71 "Vampire bat?" Lionel shivered.
72 Suddenly, a little vampire bat flew from outside of the woods, with fresh blood full of his mouth.
73 Selene uses her vampire powers to battle werewolves in the 'Underworld' series, and simply by her presence alone, we have to take the vampires' side in this fight. Just look at her, would you?
74 Painted Skin: Hit film about a flesh-eating vampire woman, based on a traditional Chinese story.
75 Then, while researching vampire lore in Whitby's library, he came across a book entitled An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia (1820) by William Wilkinson.
76 For example, the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer has vampires which are demons that have taken over the bodies of dead humans.
77 However, if it were a matter of a vampire to me or mine, I think I could overcome my squeamishness long enough to do a little roustabout work on the stroke of twelve.
78 Night World No. 1: Secret Vampire; Daughters of Darkness; Spellbinder.
79 In the film, Ethan Hawke (left), plays a vampire hematologist who grows sympathetic with the human resistance.
80 Of course, the most famous vampire of all remains Bram Stoker's Dracula, the shadowy, insidious Transylvanian count all too fond of necking.
81 VAMPIRE BAT The stuff of nightmares, the small bat is native to South America and makes a living nicking the heels of cattle and lapping up a couple of tablespoons of blood.
82 Order of the Vampire: no longer triggers if you have other Necromancer Enchantments on you.
83 In the novel, Dracula isn't killed by a wooden stake to the heart, the usual way to kill a vampire in folklore, but by a bowie knife.
84 The Energy Vampire is self-absorbed and zaps our energy as they go on-and-on endlessly about themselves.
85 Of course there are many variation of the vampire story; it's been retold and repackaged thousands of times since Bram Stoker's 1897 classic "Dracula."
86 He also had 8 requests for "vampire teeth" - fang-like front canines that stick out of the mouth.
87 When suspicion of vampirism fled though an area, it was not uncommon for the towns people to exhume the corpses of their loved ones to check for the tell tale signs of a vampire in the grave.
88 Before her movie career took off, Julie Benz played the seductive vampire Darla on the small screen in both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off show, Angel.
89 But the prospect of a nocturnal encounter with a vampire does lend a certain frisson to the forthcoming journey.
90 Like a gentle, self-sustaining vampire, the tree starts sucking 'the good stuff' out of its own leaves.