lampblack

The Century Dictionary: The Encyelopedic Lexicon of the English Language · 1887 · p. 681

(lamp’blak), v. ¢. [ To treat with lampblack; coat with lampblack. You that newly come from lamb lacking the Judges Shoes, and are not fit to wipe mine. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, iii. 1. The thickly /amp blacked surface, then, and the*retinal screen provided by nature in the eye, both exercise selective absorption. Philosophical Mag., XX VII. 2.