vampire

n. பிணமகன், கீழை ஐரோப்பிய பழங்கதை மரபில் உயிருள்ள மனிதரை இரைகொள்ளுஞ் செத்த மனிதன், குருதியுறிஞ்சும் பிசாசம், இரவில் கல்லறையை விட்டுவந்து உறங்குபவரின் குருதியுறிஞ்சும் கொடும்பாவிகஷீன் ஆவி, பேய்வாவல், உறங்கும் மனிதர்-குதிரை-கால்நடைகஷீன் குருதி உறிஞ்சுமியல்புடைய கொடிய வௌவால் வகை, பணம் பிடுங்கிய பேயர், கொடும் பகற்கொள்ளையர், கொடுஞ் சுரண்டலாளர், ஆண் வேட்டையணங்கு, திடீர்மறைவுப் புழைவாய், நாடக மேடை வழக்கில் நடிகர் திடீரென்று மறைவதற்குரிய அடித்தளப் பொறிவாயில்.

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Vam"pire, n. Etym: [F. vampire (cf. It. vampiro, G. & D. vampir), fr. Servian vampir.] [Written also vampyre.] 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 year 1730. The persons who turn vampires are generally wizards, witches, suicides, and persons who have come to a violent end, or have been cursed by their parents or by the church, Encyc. Brit. 2. Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker. 3. (Zoöl.) Defn: 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, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a cæcal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored. 4. (Zoöl.) Defn: Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially V. spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire. Vampire bat (Zoöl.), a vampire, 3.

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