Lamp

lamp, n. a ve el for burning oil with a wick, and so giving light: a light of any kind.— v.i. ( Spens. ) to shine.— ns. Lamp′ad ( rare ), a lamp or candlestick, a torch; Lamp′adary , in the Greek Church, one who looks after the lamps and carries a lighted taper before the patriarch; Lampaded′romy , an ancient Greek torch-race in honour of Pro me the us, .; Lamp′adist , one who ran in a torch-race; Lampad′omancy , the art of divining by the flame of a lamp or torch; Lamp′black , the black substance formed by the smoke of a lamp: the soot or amorphous carbon obtained by burning bodies rich in that element, such as resin, petroleum, and tar, or some of the cheap oily products obtained from it; Lamp′-burn′er , that part of a lamp in which the wick is held; Lamp′-chim′ney , Lamp′-gla , a gla funnel placed round the flame of a lamp; Lamp′-fly ( Browning ), a firefly.— adj. Lamp′ic , pertaining to, or derived from, a lamp or flame.— ns. Lamp′ion , a kind of small lamp; Lamp′-light , the light shed by a lamp or lamps; Lamp′-light′er , a person employed to light street-lamps: that by which a lamp is lighted, as a spill or torch; Lamp′-post , the pillar supporting a street-lamp; Lamp′-shell , a terebratuloid or related brachiopod having a shell like an antique lamp.— Smell of the lamp , to show signs of great elaboration or study. [Fr. lampe —Gr. lampas , -ados — lampein , to shine.]