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ns intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Ps. cxix. 105. Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared. Cowper.

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.

s of the roof of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the horse; -- called also lampers.

A supposed salt of lampic acid. [Obs.]

f 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.