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. A lamp provided with some arrangement for intensifying combustion by means of a blast. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A burner that produces a hot flame.
Syn. -- blowtorch, torch. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

[ Named after Carcel, the inventor. ] A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. LG. & D. klamp, Dan. klampe, also D. klampen to fasten, clasp. Cf. Clamber, Cramp. ] 1. Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (a) An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together. (b) (Joinery) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Shipbuilding) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A mollusk. See Clam. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Clamp nails, nails used to fasten on clamps in ships. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clamped pos>p. pr. & vb. n. Clamping. ] 1. To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cover, as vegetables, with earth. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. an imitative word. Cf. Clank. ] A heavy footstep; a tramp. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump. [ 1913 Webster ]

The policeman with clamping feet. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sudden restriction on an activity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An instrument of iron, with sharp prongs, attached to a boot or shoe to enable the wearer to walk securely upon ice; a creeper. Kane. [ 1913 Webster ]

See Safety lamp, under Lamp. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_; a shining forth, fr. &unr_; to shine forth; &unr_; out + &unr_; to shine. ] (Med.) A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term is generally restricted to a convulsive affection attending pregnancy and parturition, and to infantile convulsions. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Med.) Same as Eclampsia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Lamp. ] Shining. [ Obs. ] G. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } [ From Fresnel the inventor, a French physicist. ] A lantern having a lamp surrounded by a hollow cylindrical Fresnel lens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Chem.) An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Elect.) An incandescent lamp. See Incandescent, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A powerful light with a reflector, attached to the front of an automobile, locomotive, or other vehicle; called also headlight.
Syn. -- headlight. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A mountian in Bolivia, 20, 873 feet high. [ proper name ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. (with excrescent p), fr. F. lame, L. lamina. See Lamina. ] A thin plate or lamina. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. lampe, L. lampas, -adis, fr. Gr. &unr_; , &unr_;, torch, fr. &unr_; to give light, to shine. Cf. Lampad, Lantern. ] 1. A light-producing vessel, device, instrument or apparatus; formerly referring especially to a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial light; also, a similar device using a gas as the combustible fuel; now referring mainly to an electric lamp. See sense { 3 }. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Ps. cxix. 105. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Elec.) A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity, usually having a glass bulb or tube containing the light-emitting element. Most lamps belong to one of two categories, the Incandescent lamp (See under Incandescent) or the fluorescent lamp. However, see also arc lamp, below. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

4. A device that emits radiant energy in the form of heat, infrared, or ultraviolet rays; as, a heat lamp. [ PJC ]

Aeolipile lamp, a hollow ball of copper containing alcohol which is converted into vapor by a lamp beneath, so as to make a powerful blowpipe flame when the vapor is ignited. Weale. --
Arc lamp (Elec.), a form of lamp in which the voltaic arc is used as the source of light. --
Dëbereiner's lamp, an apparatus for the instantaneous production of a flame by the spontaneous ignition of a jet of hydrogen on being led over platinum sponge; -- named after the German chemist Döbereiner, who invented it. Called also philosopher's lamp. --
Flameless lamp, an aphlogistic lamp. --
Lamp burner, the part of a lamp where the wick is exposed and ignited. Knight. --
Lamp fount, a reservoir for oil, in a lamp. --
Lamp jack. See 2d Jack, n., 4 (l) & (n). --
Lamp shade, a screen, as of paper, glass, or tin, for softening or obstructing the light of a lamp. --
Lamp shell (Zool.), any brachiopod shell of the genus Terebratula and allied genera. The name refers to the shape, which is like that of an antique lamp. See Terebratula. --
Safety lamp, a miner's lamp in which the flame is surrounded by fine wire gauze, preventing the kindling of dangerous explosive gases; -- called also, from Sir Humphry Davy the inventor, Davy lamp. --
To smell of the lamp, to bear marks of great study and labor, as a literary composition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; , &unr_;. See Lamp. ] A lamp or candlestick. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By him who 'mid the golden lampads went. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_;, &unr_;, torch. See Lamp. ] (Gr. Antiq.) One who gained the prize in the lampadrome. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_;, &unr_;, torch + &unr_; course, race, fr. &unr_; to run. ] (Gr. Antiq.) A race run by young men with lighted torches in their hands. He who reached the goal first, with his torch unextinguished, gained the prize. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. lampas. ] An inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the roof of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the horse; -- called also lampers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. lampate. ] (Chem.) A supposed salt of lampic acid. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Lamp + black. ] The fine impalpable soot obtained from the smoke of carbonaceous substances which have been only partly burnt, as in the flame of a smoking lamp. It consists of finely divided carbon, with sometimes a very small proportion of various impurities. It is used as an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black pigments and cements. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Zool.) See Lamprey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Lamprey. ] (Zool.) The river lamprey (Ammocœtes fluviatilis syn. Lampetra fluviatilis). [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is also applied to other river lampreys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Lampas. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. lampique, fr. lampe lamp. See Lamp. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or produced by, a lamp; -- formerly said of a supposed acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shining; brilliant. [ Obs. ] “Lamping eyes.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being without a lamp, or without light; hence, being without appreciation; dull. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your ladies' eyes are lampless to that virtue. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Light from a lamp. [ 1913 Webster ]

This world's artificial lamplights. Owen Meredith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who in former times lighted street lamps which were illuminated by a combustible gas; -- such lamps are now little used, and primarily as nostalgic ornaments. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

He made the night a little brighter
Wherever he did go,
The old lamplighter
Of long, long ago. Song lyrics. (?) [ PJC ]

2. (Zool.) The calico bass. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A device used to light lamps. [ PJC ]

adj. Illuminated by a lamp. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. lampon a drinking song, fr. lampons let us drink, -- the burden of such a song, fr. lamper to guzzle, to drink much and greedily; of German origin, and akin to E. lap to drink. Prob. so called because drinking songs often contain personal slander or satire. ] 1. A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like her who missed her name in a lampoon,
And grieved to find herself decayed so soon. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Any satire ridiculing or mocking a person, activity, or institution by representing its character or behavior in an exaggerated or grotesque form; the representation may be written, filmed, or performed as a live skit, and may be intended as a severe reproach, or as good-natured humor. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Lampooned p. pr. & vb. n. Lampooning. ] To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in a work of art; to make (a person, behavior, or institution) the subject of a lampoon. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Ribald poets had lampooned him. Macaulay.

Syn. -- To libel; defame; satirize; lash. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The writer of a lampoon. “Libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers.” Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of lampooning; a lampoon, or lampoons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A post (generally a pillar of iron) supporting a lamp or lantern for lighting a street, park, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Lamprey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Lampreys [ OE. lampreie, F. lamproie, LL. lampreda, lampetra, from L. lambere to lick + petra rock, stone. The lampreys are so called because they attach themselves with their circular mouths to rocks and stones, whence they are also called rocksuckers. See Lap to drink, Petrify. ] (Zool.) An eel-like marsipobranch of the genus Petromyzon, and allied genera; called also lamprey eel and lamper eel. The lampreys have a round, sucking mouth, without jaws, but set with numerous minute teeth, and one to three larger teeth on the palate (see Illust. of Cyclostomi). There are seven small branchial openings on each side. [ Written also lamprel, and lampron. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The common or sea lamprey of America and Europe (Petromyzon marinus), which in spring ascends rivers to spawn, is considered excellent food by many, and is sold as a market fish in some localities. The smaller river lampreys mostly belong to the genus Ammocœles, or Lampetra, as Ammocœles fluviatilis, of Europe, and Ammocœles æpypterus of America. All lampreys attach themselves to other fishes, as parasites, by means of the suckerlike mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OE. lampreon. See Lamprey. ] (Zool.) See Lamprey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a protective ornamental covering used to screen the light bulb in a lamp from direct view. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A mollusklike marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food, found worldwide.
Syn. -- brachiopod. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A natural family of insects comprising the fireflies.
Syn. -- family Lampyridae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Lampyris. ] (Zool.) An insect of the genus Lampyris, or family Lampyridæ. See Lampyris. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., glowworm, Gr. (&unr_;). ] (Zool.) A genus of coleopterous insects, including the glowworms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. melampo`dion; of uncertain origin. ] The black hellebore. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]