Vampire

vam'plr, n. in the superstition of Eastern Europe, a ghost which sucks the blood of its sleeping victim: one who lives upon others a blood-sucker a luige.species of bloodsucking bat in S. America. [Fr.—Servian wawpir.} Van, van, «. the front the front of an army or a fleet. [Fr avant—L. ab, from, by, and ante, before.] [See Fan.]