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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.

of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout. Lampoons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses. Macaulay. Roving still about the world. Milton.

or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. "An abusive lampoon." Johnson.

A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.

To satirize in iambics; to lampoon. [R.]

; virulency. The rancor of pamphlets, the inveteracy of epigrams, an the mortification of lampoons. Guardian.

Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.

A lampooner; a pasquiler. [R.] Coleridge.

A lampooner. [R.] Burton.

A lampooner; also, a lampoon. See Pasquinade. The Grecian wits, who satire first began, Were pleasant pasquins on the life of man. Dryden.

A lampoon or satirical writing. Macaulay.

tible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there with a crack. Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze. Waller. The making and selling of fireworks, and squibs . . . is punishable. Blackstone.