Definition of lamp

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Lamp (n.) A light-producing vessel, instrument or apparatus; especially, a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial light..

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Lampooner :: Lampooner (n.) The writer of a lampoon.
Lampyris :: Lampyris (n.) A genus of coleopterous insects, including the glowworms..
Wicked :: Wicked (a.) Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp..
Melampyrin :: Melampyrin (n.) Alt. of Melampyrit.
Shade :: Shade (n.) That which intercepts, or shelters from, light or the direct rays of the sun; hence, also, that which protects from heat or currents of air; a screen; protection; shelter; cover; as, a lamp shade..
Clamp :: Clamp (n.) Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together..
Pasquiler :: Pasquiler (n.) A lampooner.
Palampore :: Palampore (n.) See Palempore.
Etna :: Etna (n.) A kind of small, portable, cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp..
Argand Lamp :: Argand lamp () A lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame.
Melampyrite :: Melampyrite (n.) The saccharine substance dulcite; -- so called because found in the leaves of cowwheat (Melampyrum). See Dulcite.
Lampic :: Lampic (a.) Pertaining to, or produced by, a lamp; -- formerly said of a supposed acid..
Lamp :: Lamp (n.) A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity. See Incandescent lamp, under Incandescent..
Clamp :: Clamp (v. i.) To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump.
Clamp :: Clamp (v. t.) To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.
Geordie :: Geordie (n.) A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp.
Lampoonry :: Lampoonry (n.) The act of lampooning; a lampoon, or lampoons..
Fang :: Fang (v. t.) A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle..
Cric :: Cric (n.) The ring which turns inward and condenses the flame of a lamp.
Blowpipe :: Blowpipe (n.) A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object..
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