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

A lamp or candlestick. [R.] By him who 'mid the golden lampads went. Trench.

One who gained the prize in the lampadrome.

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.

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.

A supposed salt of lampic acid. [Obs.]

d 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.

See Lamprey.

The river lamprey (Ammocoetes, or Lampetra, fluviatilis).

See Lampas.

Pertaining to, or produced by, a lamp; -- formerly said of a supposed acid.

Shining; brilliant. [Obs.] "Lamping eyes." Spenser.

Being without a lamp, or without light; hence, being without appreciation; dull. Your ladies' eyes are lampless to that virtue. Beau. & Fl.

Light from a lamp. This world's artificial lamplights. Owen Meredith.

One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps.

abusive censure written only to reproach and distress. Like her who missed her name in a lampoon, And grieved to find herself decayed so soon. Dryden.

The writer of a lampoon. "Libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers." Tatler.

The act of lampooning; a lampoon, or lampoons.

See Lamprey.

An eel-like marsipobranch of the genus Petromyzon, and allied genera. 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 lamper eel, lamp…