lampn.¹

Brit.

/lamp/, U.S.

/læmp/

Forms: Middle English–1600s lampe, Middle English–1500s laumpe, (Middle English lompe, Middle English lawmp(e), Middle English– lamp.

Etymology: < French lampe (recorded from 12th cent.) = Provençal and Italian lampa, < Latin lampas, Greek λαμπάς, < λάμπειν to shine.

a. A vessel containing oil, which is burnt at a wick, for the purpose of illumination. Now also a vessel of glass or some similar material, enclosing the source of illumination, whether a candle, oil, gas-jet, or incandescent wire. Often preceded by some defining word, as arc lamp, Argand lamp, Davy lamp, electric lamp, gas lamp, spirit lamp, sun lamp, Vesta lamp.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp

lightfatOE

lampc1200

lucernec1450

pharos1759

lite1924

c1200 Vices & Virtues 33 Hit wile on lampe bernen brihte.

c1230 Hali Meid. 45 As is wiðute lihte oile in a laumpe.

13.. K. Alis. 5253 Tofore the kyng honge..two thousande laumpes of gold.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. ii. 186 Hit is as lewede as a lamp þat no lyght ys ynne.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 258 A laumpe hangith bifore Seint Kateryn.

1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 35^v I haue putte more oille in my lampe to studie by.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. QQii^v Apperyng to hym..in the simylitude of y^e good angell, with great lightes and lampes.

1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xiv. i. 354 Also their lamps,..alembecks, viols, croslets, cucurbits, [etc.].

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iv. 7 Darke Night strangles the trauailing Lampe .

1685 London Gaz. No. 2092/4 A Patent..for enlightening the Streets, by a new sort of Lantern with Lamps.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. III. 29 Seven golden lamps are continually burning before the image.

1806 A. Duncan Nelson's Funeral 13 Lamps, having two candles in each.

1829 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. Heat ix. 47 A quantity of the liquid..was..rapidly distilled into the globe, by the heat of an Argand lamp.

1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. III. 251 Their [actors'] only one object in life is to keep themselves, as they phrase it, ‘before the lamps’; that is to say, in the eyes of the audience, and in the receipt of personal applause.

c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 113/1 Among the disadvantages of the Vesta lamp, are its liability to smoke, and its disagreeable smell.

1892 Electr. Engineer 16 Sept. 283/1 Forked terminals fixed on the ends of the connecting wires serve to complete the circuit between lamp and battery.

b. (Said of a literary composition). to smell of (or †taste) the lamp: to be the manifest product of nocturnal or laborious study.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > use ornate language [verb (intransitive)] > be laboured or pedantic

to smell of the candle, lamp, oil1542

to smell of (or taste) the lamp1579

to smell of the inkhorn1587

to smell of oil1646

1579 T. North tr. Demosthenes in Plutarch Lives (1595) 889 Pytheas..taunting him on a time, tolde him, his reasons smelled of the lampe. Yea, replied Demosthenes sharply againe: so is there great difference, Pytheas, betwixt thy labor and myne by lampelight.

1615 in Breton's Charac. Essaies (Grosart) 4/1 He that shall read thy characters..must say they are well written. They taste the lampe.

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. xx. 309 That dry..pedantic..Style which smells of the Lamp and the College.

1769 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 21 Apr. (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2883 I asked [Lord Chatham]..how..he could always speak with so much extempore eloquence..without its smelling of the lamp.

1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. iv. 91 Hardly any poet smells of the lamp less disagreeably than Spenser.

c. Used for torch; (in quots. 1722, 1848-9 with allusion, after Plato Legg. 776 b and Lucret. ii. 79, to the Grecian torch-race: see lampadedromy n.).

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > torch > [noun]

blazec1000

torchc1290

lampa1382

flambec1430

shaft?c1450

cresset1578

brandon?1614

mussal1698

ruffy1793

torch-brand1825

bug1924

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Song of Sol. viii. 6 The laumpis of it the laumpes of fir, and of flaumes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 23 Therefore take heede, As Hymens Lamps shall light you.

1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature vi. 136 Or death extinguishes him and his title together, and he delivers the lamp to his next man.

1848–9 C. Kingsley World's Age in Poems ii Still the race of Hero-spirits Pass the lamp from hand to hand.

d. = safety lamp n.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > lamp

pitman candle1658

fire lamp1769

steel mill1772

safe lamp1815

safe lantern1815

safety lamp1815

safety lantern1815

safe light1816

Davy1817

lamp1839

Geordie1844

pit lamp1860

flame-lamp1888

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 736 Lamp of Davy, consists of a common oil lamp, surmounted with a covered cylinder of wire gauze, for transmitting light to the miner without endangering the kindling of the atmosphere of fire-damp.

1883 in W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Coal Mining.

2. transferred.

a. singular. One of the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon, a star or meteor; also, a flash (of lightning). plural. The stars or heavenly bodies in general. Also lamp(s) of the night, lamp(s) of the world.

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the world > the universe > star > [noun]

stareOE

starnc1175

lamp1423

aster1603

spangle1605

fires of heaven1609

asterism1657

sunleta1854

1423 Kingis Quair lxxii Esperus his lampis gan to light.

1568 in J. Small Poems W. Dunbar (1893) II. 329 The Sterne of glory is rissyn ws to gyd,..Abone Phebus, the radius lamp divrn.

1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso ix. lxix. 70 Straight like a lampe of lightning out it flies.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 17 Those lampes or torches make long traines.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 13 It is high time for me to descend from these measures of time; the lampes of the world.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 5 When they see Sun, we see the Lamps of night.

1792 J. Wolcot Wks. III. 198 Mild and placid as the light Shed by the Worm, the lamp of dewy night.

1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. ii. 129 Thus as he lay, the lamp of night Was quivering on his armour bright.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 37 Yon clear lamps That measure and divide the weary years.

1830 Hogg in Blackwood's Mag. 27 767 Lamps of glory begemm'd the sky.

b. plural. The eyes (formerly poetic; now slang).

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun]

eyeeOE

the fleshly eyec1175

balla1400

window1481

glazier1567

light1580

crystal1592

orb1594

glass1597

optic1601

twinkler1605

lampa1616

watchera1616

wink-a-peeps1615

visive organa1652

ogle1673

peeper1691

goggle?1705

visual orb1725

orbit1727

winker1734

peep?1738

daylights?1747

eyewinker1808

keeker1808

glimmer1814

blinker1816

glim1820

goggler1821

skylight1824

ocular1825

mince pie1857

saucer1858

mince1937

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 317 My wasting lampes some fading glimmer left.

1647 R. Fanshawe tr. B. Guarini Pastor Fido (1676) 77 Behold that proud one on me turn Her sparkling lamps.

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 185 Lamps, the eyes; to have queer lamps, is to have sore or weak eyes.

1899 C. Rook Hooligan Nights iv. 63 Ole ruby boko put 'is lamps over me, wiv no error, an' he says, ‘Why you're the youngster as come in 'ere afore.’

1901 ‘H. McHugh’ John Henry 90 The old hen with the languishing lamps was still on my trail.

1928 Daily Express 29 Aug. 7/4 Woman in an assault case at Weymouth: I said I would fill her lamps for her. Clerk: What does that mean? Woman: Blacken her eyes.

1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad 331 He had his lamps on the copper.

3. figurative. A source or centre of light, spiritual or intellectual. Also, lamp of beauty, lamp of joy, lamp of life, etc.‘Seven lamps’ are frequently mentioned in Biblical passages either as part of the Temple furniture or in symbolic references (e.g. Exodus xxv. 37, Zechariah iv. 2, Revelation iv. 5); hence allusive uses as in quots. 1582, 1849.

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c1500 Makculloch MS in G. S. Stevenson Pieces from Makculloch & Gray MSS (1918) 24 O lamp lemand befoir þe trwne dewyne,..O mater Ihesu, [salue maria]!

1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 162 Go, hart, vnto the lampe of lycht,..Go, hart, vnto thy Sauiour.

1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. 434 (margin) Cambridge and Oxenford the twoe lampes of England, for learning, knowledge, etc.

1582 T. Bentley (title) The Monument of Matrons; conteining seven severall Lamps of Virginity.

1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 64 Blyth Aberdeane,..The lamp of bewtie, bountie and blythnes.

1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis 45 in Sylua Syluarum Wee haue Three that take care..to Direct New Experiments, of a Higher Light,..These wee call Lamps.

1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §lxxi Blessed be God that hath set vp so many cleare Lamps in his Church.

1631 R. Bolton Instr. Right Comf. Affl. Consciences 318 Hold out a Lamp of goodly profession to the eie of the world.

1717 L. Howel Desiderius (ed. 3) 86 This Lamp is called by the Name of Good Conscience.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 248 The great Lamp of Instruction, the Spirit of God.

1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 5 Reason, that Heav'n-lighted Lamp in Man.

1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 556 Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared.

1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iv. xi. 143 Quench'd is his lamp of varied lore.

1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 288 Quesnay's lamp..kindled the lamp of Adam Smith.

1849 J. Ruskin (title) The seven lamps of architecture.

1878 J. P. Hopps Life Jesus ii. 11 Whoever despaired of the world, he, at least, kept the lamp of hope burning brightly in his soul.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

lamp accident n.

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1895 Daily News 17 Oct. 6/6 Switzerland appears to share with Germany practical immunity from lamp accidents.

† lamp basin n. Obsolete

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1531 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Paid for mendyng of the lamp basyn viijd.

1552 Inventory in Archaeologia Cantiana (1872) 8 101 Item an old lampe-bason of laten.

lamp-bracket n.

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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Lamp-bracket.

lamp-bulb n.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > parts of > light bulb

bulb1796

electric bulb1856

electric light bulb1884

light bulb1885

globe1898

lamp-bulb1911

1911 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 78/1 If a thin gold film is deposited on the lower half of the lamp-bulb.

lamp-burner n.

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1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 1106 Lamp-burners in different numbers.

lamp-chimney n.

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1847 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1846 276 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (29th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 52) III I also claim the lamp chimney, formed of glass, with two contractions.

1870 A. S. Stephens Married in Haste xv. 85 She unscrewed the lamp-chimney..and polished off a stain of black smoke.

1906 J. Joyce Let. 6 Nov. (1966) II. 186 A lamp chimney here costs one lira!

lamp-cotton n.

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1782 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 167 The wick of the flame consists only of a single very thin lamp-cotton thread.

lamp cup n.

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1847 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1846 280 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (29th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 52) III What I do claim as my invention..is the peculiar form which I give to the lamp cup.

lamp-fête n.

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1899 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin (1900) 82/2 It is one of the great lamp-fêtes of Sais.

lamp-fire n.

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1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 344 Make a Lamp Fire under it.

lamp-flame n.

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1904 Westm. Gaz. 13 Aug. 6/2 Not a single lamp-flame stirs or quivers.

1920 J. Masefield Enslaved 52 The lamp-flame purred from want of oil.

lamp-glass n.

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1521 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Paied for a lampe glasse jd.

1914 D. H. Lawrence Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd i. i. 7 She has been lighting the lamp and holds the lamp-glass.

1974 G. Jenkins Bridge of Magpies vii. 99 The condensation dripped from the lamp~glass.

lamp-globe n.

lamp-glow n.

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1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 410 Their tunics bloodbright in a lampglow.

lamp-house n.

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1849 F. B. Head Stokers & Pokers vii. 63 The driver..then takes his lamps to the lamp-house to be cleaned and trimmed by workmen solely employed to do so.

† lamp-micrometer n. Obsolete

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1782 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 165 The instrument I am going to describe, which I call a Lamp-Micrometer, is free from all these defects.

lamp-room n.

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1895 Daily News 25 Sept. 7/2 The boatswain was in charge of the lamp-room, but did not trim the lamp.

lamp-scissors n.

lamp-sconce n.

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1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 391 The golden lamp-sconce of seven golden candlesticks.

lamp-screen n.

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1877 E. Phelps Story of Avis 239 The Japanese coloring upon the lamp-screen.

lamp-shine n.

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1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. ii. xviii. 449 The uneasy warmth of the overarching trees would draw them very close, while hushed endearments took them slowly into lamp~shine.

1938 W. de la Mare Memory & Other Poems 90 He shook his rascal head, Its curls by the lamp-shine gilt.

lamp-soot n.

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1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxix. 355 Our clothing..was black with lamp-soot.

lamp-stand n.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > stand or mat for

light stand1817

candelabrum1834

lamp-mat1842

lamp-stand1893

lamp-standard1908

1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I Lamp-stand.

1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) ii. iv. 235 I found her in our drawing-room, standing beside the tall lamp-stand that half filled the bay.

1961 Bible (New Eng.) Heb. ix. 2 For a tent was prepared—the first tent—in which was the lamp-stand, and the table with the bread of the Presence.

1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate vii. 223 He then unscrewed the base of the mosaic lampstand.

lamp-stead n.

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1897 J. T. Micklethwaite Ornaments Rubric 30 We find a lamp~stead in a wall in the form of a niche.

lamp-stove n.

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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Lamp-stove.

lamp-student n.

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1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 798 Lamp-students, that study by the lamp, or candle.

lamp-worm n.

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1917 T. Hardy Moments of Vision & Misc. Verses 61 As delicate as lamp-worm's lucency.

b. Objective.

lamp-bearer n.

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1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. xiv. 314 You must be my lamp bearer.

lamp-bearing adj.

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1824 J. Symmons tr. Æschylus Agamemnon 31 Such is the course of the lamp-bearing games.

lamp-cleaner n.

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1898 Daily News 17 Nov. 5/4 He gossiped with the lamp-cleaner and the porter.

lamp-maker n.

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1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Lamparo, a lampe-maker.

1875 J. Lukin Carpentry & Joinery 100 A disc of talc, to be had of any lampmaker, will answer even better than tin.

lamp-trimmer n.

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1882 Navy List July 466 Lamptrimmer..in 1st Class Ships.

† lamp-waster n. Obsolete

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a1639 S. Marmion Antiquary (1641) iii. i. sig. F3^v Head-scratchers, thumb-biters, lamp-wasters.

lamp-lighting adj. and n.

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1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI xxvi. 116 The French were not yet a lamp-lighting nation.

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xii. 112 We went out to a restaurant, just after lamp-lighting.

lamp-locking n. (see quots.).

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1894 Gloss. Terms Evid. Royal Comm. Labour 51/2 in Parl. Papers 1893–4 (C. 7063–VC) XXXVIII. 411 Lamp-locking station, the place in a mine where the safety-lamps of all the miners are examined and locked by an official.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 12 July 7/1 I was in the lamp-locking cabin, which is a short distance from the bottom of the shaft.

d. Instrumental.

lamp-decked adj.

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1826 H. H. Milman Anne Boleyn (1827) 33 Around the lamp-deck'd altar high and dim.

lamp-heated adj.

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1875 J. Lukin Carpentry & Joinery 95 We will now describe a better class of lamp-heated case.

lamp-lighted adj.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [adjective] > of or resembling a lamp > lit by a lamp

lamp-lit1835

lamp-lighted1843

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) v. 55 The now lamp-lighted streets.

† lamp-lined adj. Obsolete

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1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. viii. 174 Gedeons men by order from him brake their lamp-lined pitchers.

lamp-lit adj.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [adjective] > of or resembling a lamp > lit by a lamp

lamp-lit1835

lamp-lighted1843

1835 Court Mag. 6 82 In lamplit vistas cold and grey, The streets deserted stretch away.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iv. 65 No bigger than a glow-worm shone the tent Lamp-lit from the inner.

lamp-warmed adj.

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1850 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour liii, in New Monthly Mag. Sept. 110 Sundry lamp-warmed dishes of savoury grills.

lamp-like adj.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [adjective] > of or resembling a lamp

lamp-like1674

1674 W. Petty Disc. before Royal Soc. 95 Let there be a Lamplike Vessel of common Aquavitæ.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 356 Fire will burn his lamp-like eyes.

1913 D. H. Lawrence Love Poems 17 But the Moon..unfurled Her white, her lamp-like shape.

C2. Special combinations.

† lamp-beam n. Obsolete ? a chandelier.

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1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xii. f. 151^v He ran And pulled downe a Lampbeame [L. funale] full of lyghtes.

lamp-cap n. the base of an electric light bulb or lamp into which are sealed the terminals and the neck of the glass globe.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > parts of

light fixture1888

dimmer switch1896

lamp-cap1899

flasher1909

light switch1912

bayonet cap1914

light button1928

light cord1930

coiled coil1935

minuterie1955

wallwasher1966

1899 W. P. Maycock Electr. Wiring iii. 324 The lamp caps are fitted with a central plunger contact.

1971 L. E. Vrenken in W. Elenbaas Fluorescent Lamps (ed. 2) v. 60 To connect a lamp to the electrical circuit a number of different lamp caps have been designed.

lamp-fish n. (see quot.).

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1883 C. F. Holder in Harper's Mag. Jan. 186/1 The Scopelus resplendens..is called the brilliant lamp-fish..from the fact that it has upon its head at night a glowing light.

lamp-fly n. ? a glow-worm.

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1840 R. Browning Sordello iii. 105 Thorn-rows Alive with lamp-flies.

lamp-furnace n. a furnace in which a lamp was used as the means of heating.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > types of furnace by method of operation

lamp-furnace1651

wind-furnace1651

reverbatory1656

blast furnace1706

revolver1879

run-out1881

flame-furnace1888

producer1890

resistance furnace1897

induction furnace1907

suction plant1909

high-frequency induction furnace1918

solar furnace1924

roller hearth furnace1927

1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 153 There is another sort of Lamp furnaces with three candles.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 195 Therefore may you with much facility hatch three or four douzen of Eggs in a Lamp-furnace made of a few Boards, only by the heat of a Candle or Lamp.

1771 W. Hewson in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 385 I therefore prepared a lamp-furnace with a small vessel of water upon it.

lamp-hole n. a hole or opening to receive a lamp; in sewers, a hole to admit of the passage of a lamp.

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1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 55/2 Ventilator with Dirt Boxes and Lamphole Cover combined.

1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 151 The second-class passengers..drenched by the rain pouring through the lamp-hole!

lamp-house n. the part of a photographic enlarger or projector which houses the light-source.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > processing and printing equipment > [noun] > enlarger > part of

lamp-house1912

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > viewing of photographs > [noun] > projecting on to screen > projector > parts of

tinter1891

projection lens1894

lamp-house1912

slide carrier1953

flash-meter1957

slide changer1959

1912 J. F. Hodges Opening & Operating Motion Pict. Theatre 49 (caption) Lamp house.

1916 R. E. Welsh A-B-C of Motion Pict. 17 In the first place, there is a ‘lamp-house’, a small cabinet which contains the light.

1933 Discovery Mar. 90/1 The illuminant itself [is] enclosed in a lamp house which is glazed with a filter of the same type as that used in the camera.

1971 L. B. Happé Basic Motion Pict. Technol. x. 306 A xenon arc lamp can be substituted for a carbon arc in an existing lamphouse optical system but it is preferable to have a complete lamphouse designed around the new source.

† lamp-iron n. Obsolete a projecting iron rod from which a lamp was suspended; in the French Revolution sometimes used as a gallows.

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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows

gallowsOE

gallows-treea1000

warytre?a1200

gibbet?c1225

gallow-forka1250

forkc1275

juisec1320

forchesc1380

crossa1382

treec1425

patible1428

justice1484

potencec1500

haltera1533

turning-tree1548

potentc1550

three treesa1566

chates1567

mare1568

furel1587

bough1590

gibe1590

derrickc1600

hangrella1605

cross-tree1638

Gregorian tree1641

wooden horse1642

timber-marec1650

triple tree1651

furca1653

nubbing1673

a horse that was foaled of an acorn1678

nub1699

Tyburn tree1728

raven-stone1738

picture frame1785

crap1789

lamp-iron1790

Moll Blood1818

stifler1818

scragging-post1819

government signposta1828

leafless tree1830

shuggie-shue1836

doom-tree1837

stob1860–62

the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > device for suspending

lamp-iron1790

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 132 Though the latter should act with the libel and the lamp-iron .

1831 Soc. Life Eng. & Fr. 411 The lamp-iron yet remains at the corner of the Place de Greve, to which Foulon..was suspended in July 1790.

1851 S. Warner Wide Wide World I. i. 10 The lamplighter..hooked his ladder on the lamp-irons, ran up and lit the lamp.

lamp-jack n. U.S. (see quot.).

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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 526/1 Lamp jack (Railway), a hood over a lamp chimney on the roof of a car.

lamp-man n. (a) a manufacturer of or dealer in lamps; (b) one who has charge of or tends lamps.

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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in other specific articles

ironmonger1164

ointer1263

bowyer1297

jewellera1382

fletcher1457

stapler1532

India merchant1618

tobacconist1657

colourman1663

tobacconer1701

lamp-man1704

drysalter1707

snuffman1723

wet-salter1725

potman1732

material man1778

tobacco-trader1840

dogman1860

stamp-dealer1863

waste-dealer1876

pearler1881

the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > one who makes or looks after

lamp-man1704

lampist1839

lamps1866

the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > one in charge of

lamp-man1876

lamper1886

1704 London Gaz. No. 4060/6 Lamp-men, Ironmongers, Brasiers.

1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl VII. vii. 280 Fiddlers, tailors, lampmen, and all sorts of trades.

1876 F. S. Williams Midland Railway 655 The driver..now takes his lamps to the lamphouse to be cleaned and trimmed by the lamp~men.

1892 Daily News 3 Mar. 5/6 The lamp man inside..hands out the check and a lamp to collier No. 46.

lamp-mat n. a mat on which a table-lamp is placed.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > stand or mat for

light stand1817

candelabrum1834

lamp-mat1842

lamp-stand1893

lamp-standard1908

1842 Spirit of Times 15 Oct. 389/2 (Weingarten) Also to Miss Waterman..[a diploma] for various specimens of her exquisite work of lamp mats.

1856 Trans. Michigan Agric. Soc. 7 700 Some beautiful lamp-mats and other worsted and crochet work.

1873 Young Englishwoman June 302/1 Embroidered border for lamp-mat.

1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xxxviii. 400 Lamp..standing on a gridiron, so to speak, made of high-colored yarns, by the young ladies of the house, and called a lamp-mat.

lamp-moss n. moss used as material for lamp-wicks.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > [noun] > oil-lamp > wick > material for

lamp-moss1865

1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xii. 401 The women have lamps and stone-kettles, lamp-moss [etc.].

lamp-shell n. a brachiopod, esp. one of the genus Terebratula or family Terebratulidæ.

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1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 209 The Brachiopoda are bivalve shell-fish... Their forms are symmetrical, and so commonly resemble antique lamps, that they were called lampades, or ‘lamp-shells’, by the old naturalists.

1876 T. H. Huxley Amer. Addr. (1877) ii. 36 One of the cretaceous lamp-shells (Terebratula).

lamp-socket n. = lamp-holder n.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > holder for

lamp-holder1885

lamp-socket1908

1908 Westm. Gaz. 27 Oct. 6/1 A small transformer can be placed in the lamp-socket.

1968 Lighting Equipm. News Mar. 23/1 The adaptor fits into the existing lamp socket.

lamp-standard n. a post or other strong support for a lamp.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > stand or mat for

light stand1817

candelabrum1834

lamp-mat1842

lamp-stand1893

lamp-standard1908

1908 Daily Chron. 5 Aug. 3/5 A motor fire engine..collided with a lamp standard.

1967 Lighting Equipm. News Jan. 26/3 The complete lamps and lamp standard are constructed on zinc coated sheet metal and painted.

lamp-wick n. (a) the wick of a lamp; (b) the labiate plant Phlomis Lychnites.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > [noun] > oil-lamp > wick

wickc1000

lamp-wick1845

1845 C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 135 Miss Teeny had picked up the lamp-wick with a pin several times.

1863 M. J. Berkeley Handbk. Brit. Mosses ix. 39 One species [of moss] affords a substitute for lampwicks to the Esquimaux.

lamp-worker n. (see quot. 1962).

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > glass-maker > [noun] > involved in specific process

glass-blower?1518

annealer1656

sarole-man1662

lamp-worker1665

leer man1849

founder1853

wetter-off1883

smalt-maker1921

smalter1923

presser1962

firer1998

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 209 The blowing of Glass into exceeding thin shells, and then breaking them into scales, which any lamp-worker will presently do.

1962 Gloss. Terms Glass Industry (B.S.I.) 46 Lamp worker, a worker who forms glassware from tubing or rod by heating in an oxy-gas or air-gas flame at a work bench.

1970 Canad. Antiques Collector Apr. 26/2 He may..watch a lampworker forming ornaments from glass softened over a gas torch.

Draft additions 1997

plural. (With capital initial.) A nickname for a person responsible for looking after lamps, esp. on board ship. ?Obsolete.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > one who makes or looks after

lamp-man1704

lampist1839

lamps1866

society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > sailors with other specific duties on ship

sounder1575

carpenter1626

marshal1626

mastman1649

master of voyage1771

tierer1825

legger1831

call boy1835

bellboy1851

paymaster1852

snubber1853

leadsman1857

lamps1866

berther1867

bailer1883

waistboater1891

tanky1909

planesman1945

1866 All Year Round Extra Christmas No. 10 Dec. 6/1 The answer to his inquiry, ‘Where's Lamps?’ was..that it was his off-time.

1900 F. T. Bullen Men of Merchant Service 152 How can a sailor be expected to show due deference to a man, who, after all, is only ‘Lamps’.

1919 E. O'Neill Moon of Caribbees 18 Fetch a light, Lamps, that's a good boy.

1933 M. Lowry Ultramarine ii. 62 Both Lamps and Chips have been up for ten minutes.

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lamp-working n.

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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with glass > [noun] > specific processes

annealing1662

snip-work1703

founding1783

glass-blowing1829

nibbling1850

lamp-working1925

1925 Hodkin & Cousen Textbk. Glass Technol. xxxvi. 483 For lamp-working and general purposes a soft soda-lime glass is preferred.

1976 Canadian Collector (Toronto) Mar.–Apr. 38/3 Lampworking for him was both profitable work and an absorbing hobby.

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单词	lamp
释义	lampn.¹ Brit. /lamp/, U.S. /læmp/ Forms: Middle English–1600s lampe, Middle English–1500s laumpe, (Middle English lompe, Middle English lawmp(e), Middle English– lamp. Etymology: < French lampe (recorded from 12th cent.) = Provençal and Italian lampa, < Latin lampas, Greek λαμπάς, < λάμπειν to shine. 1. a. A vessel containing oil, which is burnt at a wick, for the purpose of illumination. Now also a vessel of glass or some similar material, enclosing the source of illumination, whether a candle, oil, gas-jet, or incandescent wire. Often preceded by some defining word, as arc lamp, Argand lamp, Davy lamp, electric lamp, gas lamp, spirit lamp, sun lamp, Vesta lamp. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp lightfatOE lampc1200 lucernec1450 pharos1759 lite1924 c1200 Vices & Virtues 33 Hit wile on lampe bernen brihte. c1230 Hali Meid. 45 As is wiðute lihte oile in a laumpe. 13.. K. Alis. 5253 Tofore the kyng honge..two thousande laumpes of gold. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. ii. 186 Hit is as lewede as a lamp þat no lyght ys ynne. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 258 A laumpe hangith bifore Seint Kateryn. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 35^v I haue putte more oille in my lampe to studie by. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. QQii^v Apperyng to hym..in the simylitude of y^e good angell, with great lightes and lampes. 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xiv. i. 354 Also their lamps,..alembecks, viols, croslets, cucurbits, [etc.]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iv. 7 Darke Night strangles the trauailing Lampe . View more context for this quotation 1685 London Gaz. No. 2092/4 A Patent..for enlightening the Streets, by a new sort of Lantern with Lamps. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. III. 29 Seven golden lamps are continually burning before the image. 1806 A. Duncan Nelson's Funeral 13 Lamps, having two candles in each. 1829 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. Heat ix. 47 A quantity of the liquid..was..rapidly distilled into the globe, by the heat of an Argand lamp. 1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. III. 251 Their [actors'] only one object in life is to keep themselves, as they phrase it, ‘before the lamps’; that is to say, in the eyes of the audience, and in the receipt of personal applause. c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 113/1 Among the disadvantages of the Vesta lamp, are its liability to smoke, and its disagreeable smell. 1892 Electr. Engineer 16 Sept. 283/1 Forked terminals fixed on the ends of the connecting wires serve to complete the circuit between lamp and battery. b. (Said of a literary composition). to smell of (or †taste) the lamp: to be the manifest product of nocturnal or laborious study. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > use ornate language [verb (intransitive)] > be laboured or pedantic to smell of the candle, lamp, oil1542 to smell of (or taste) the lamp1579 to smell of the inkhorn1587 to smell of oil1646 1579 T. North tr. Demosthenes in Plutarch Lives (1595) 889 Pytheas..taunting him on a time, tolde him, his reasons smelled of the lampe. Yea, replied Demosthenes sharply againe: so is there great difference, Pytheas, betwixt thy labor and myne by lampelight. 1615 in Breton's Charac. Essaies (Grosart) 4/1 He that shall read thy characters..must say they are well written. They taste the lampe. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. xx. 309 That dry..pedantic..Style which smells of the Lamp and the College. 1769 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 21 Apr. (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2883 I asked [Lord Chatham]..how..he could always speak with so much extempore eloquence..without its smelling of the lamp. 1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. iv. 91 Hardly any poet smells of the lamp less disagreeably than Spenser. c. Used for torch; (in quots. 1722, 1848-9 with allusion, after Plato Legg. 776 b and Lucret. ii. 79, to the Grecian torch-race: see lampadedromy n.). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > torch > [noun] blazec1000 torchc1290 lampa1382 flambec1430 shaft?c1450 cresset1578 brandon?1614 mussal1698 ruffy1793 torch-brand1825 bug1924 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Song of Sol. viii. 6 The laumpis of it the laumpes of fir, and of flaumes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 23 Therefore take heede, As Hymens Lamps shall light you. View more context for this quotation 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature vi. 136 Or death extinguishes him and his title together, and he delivers the lamp to his next man. 1848–9 C. Kingsley World's Age in Poems ii Still the race of Hero-spirits Pass the lamp from hand to hand. d. = safety lamp n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > lamp pitman candle1658 fire lamp1769 steel mill1772 safe lamp1815 safe lantern1815 safety lamp1815 safety lantern1815 safe light1816 Davy1817 lamp1839 Geordie1844 pit lamp1860 flame-lamp1888 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 736 Lamp of Davy, consists of a common oil lamp, surmounted with a covered cylinder of wire gauze, for transmitting light to the miner without endangering the kindling of the atmosphere of fire-damp. 1883 in W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Coal Mining. 2. transferred. a. singular. One of the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon, a star or meteor; also, a flash (of lightning). plural. The stars or heavenly bodies in general. Also lamp(s) of the night, lamp(s) of the world. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > star > [noun] stareOE starnc1175 lamp1423 aster1603 spangle1605 fires of heaven1609 asterism1657 sunleta1854 1423 Kingis Quair lxxii Esperus his lampis gan to light. 1568 in J. Small Poems W. Dunbar (1893) II. 329 The Sterne of glory is rissyn ws to gyd,..Abone Phebus, the radius lamp divrn. 1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso ix. lxix. 70 Straight like a lampe of lightning out it flies. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 17 Those lampes or torches make long traines. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 13 It is high time for me to descend from these measures of time; the lampes of the world. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 5 When they see Sun, we see the Lamps of night. 1792 J. Wolcot Wks. III. 198 Mild and placid as the light Shed by the Worm, the lamp of dewy night. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. ii. 129 Thus as he lay, the lamp of night Was quivering on his armour bright. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 37 Yon clear lamps That measure and divide the weary years. 1830 Hogg in Blackwood's Mag. 27 767 Lamps of glory begemm'd the sky. b. plural. The eyes (formerly poetic; now slang). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] eyeeOE the fleshly eyec1175 balla1400 window1481 glazier1567 light1580 crystal1592 orb1594 glass1597 optic1601 twinkler1605 lampa1616 watchera1616 wink-a-peeps1615 visive organa1652 ogle1673 peeper1691 goggle?1705 visual orb1725 orbit1727 winker1734 peep?1738 daylights?1747 eyewinker1808 keeker1808 glimmer1814 blinker1816 glim1820 goggler1821 skylight1824 ocular1825 mince pie1857 saucer1858 mince1937 a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 317 My wasting lampes some fading glimmer left. View more context for this quotation 1647 R. Fanshawe tr. B. Guarini Pastor Fido (1676) 77 Behold that proud one on me turn Her sparkling lamps. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 185 Lamps, the eyes; to have queer lamps, is to have sore or weak eyes. 1899 C. Rook Hooligan Nights iv. 63 Ole ruby boko put 'is lamps over me, wiv no error, an' he says, ‘Why you're the youngster as come in 'ere afore.’ 1901 ‘H. McHugh’ John Henry 90 The old hen with the languishing lamps was still on my trail. 1928 Daily Express 29 Aug. 7/4 Woman in an assault case at Weymouth: I said I would fill her lamps for her. Clerk: What does that mean? Woman: Blacken her eyes. 1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad 331 He had his lamps on the copper. 3. figurative. A source or centre of light, spiritual or intellectual. Also, lamp of beauty, lamp of joy, lamp of life, etc.‘Seven lamps’ are frequently mentioned in Biblical passages either as part of the Temple furniture or in symbolic references (e.g. Exodus xxv. 37, Zechariah iv. 2, Revelation iv. 5); hence allusive uses as in quots. 1582, 1849. ΚΠ c1500 Makculloch MS in G. S. Stevenson Pieces from Makculloch & Gray MSS (1918) 24 O lamp lemand befoir þe trwne dewyne,..O mater Ihesu, [salue maria]! 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 162 Go, hart, vnto the lampe of lycht,..Go, hart, vnto thy Sauiour. 1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. 434 (margin) Cambridge and Oxenford the twoe lampes of England, for learning, knowledge, etc. 1582 T. Bentley (title) The Monument of Matrons; conteining seven severall Lamps of Virginity. 1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 64 Blyth Aberdeane,..The lamp of bewtie, bountie and blythnes. 1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis 45 in Sylua Syluarum Wee haue Three that take care..to Direct New Experiments, of a Higher Light,..These wee call Lamps. 1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §lxxi Blessed be God that hath set vp so many cleare Lamps in his Church. 1631 R. Bolton Instr. Right Comf. Affl. Consciences 318 Hold out a Lamp of goodly profession to the eie of the world. 1717 L. Howel Desiderius (ed. 3) 86 This Lamp is called by the Name of Good Conscience. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 248 The great Lamp of Instruction, the Spirit of God. 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 5 Reason, that Heav'n-lighted Lamp in Man. 1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 556 Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iv. xi. 143 Quench'd is his lamp of varied lore. 1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 288 Quesnay's lamp..kindled the lamp of Adam Smith. 1849 J. Ruskin (title) The seven lamps of architecture. 1878 J. P. Hopps Life Jesus ii. 11 Whoever despaired of the world, he, at least, kept the lamp of hope burning brightly in his soul. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. lamp accident n. ΚΠ 1895 Daily News 17 Oct. 6/6 Switzerland appears to share with Germany practical immunity from lamp accidents. † lamp basin n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1531 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Paid for mendyng of the lamp basyn viijd. 1552 Inventory in Archaeologia Cantiana (1872) 8 101 Item an old lampe-bason of laten. lamp-bracket n. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Lamp-bracket. lamp-bulb n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > parts of > light bulb bulb1796 electric bulb1856 electric light bulb1884 light bulb1885 globe1898 lamp-bulb1911 1911 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 78/1 If a thin gold film is deposited on the lower half of the lamp-bulb. lamp-burner n. ΚΠ 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. IV. 1106 Lamp-burners in different numbers. lamp-chimney n. ΚΠ 1847 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1846 276 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (29th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 52) III I also claim the lamp chimney, formed of glass, with two contractions. 1870 A. S. Stephens Married in Haste xv. 85 She unscrewed the lamp-chimney..and polished off a stain of black smoke. 1906 J. Joyce Let. 6 Nov. (1966) II. 186 A lamp chimney here costs one lira! lamp-cotton n. ΚΠ 1782 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 167 The wick of the flame consists only of a single very thin lamp-cotton thread. lamp cup n. ΚΠ 1847 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1846 280 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (29th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 52) III What I do claim as my invention..is the peculiar form which I give to the lamp cup. lamp-fête n. ΚΠ 1899 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin (1900) 82/2 It is one of the great lamp-fêtes of Sais. lamp-fire n. ΚΠ 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 344 Make a Lamp Fire under it. lamp-flame n. ΚΠ 1904 Westm. Gaz. 13 Aug. 6/2 Not a single lamp-flame stirs or quivers. 1920 J. Masefield Enslaved 52 The lamp-flame purred from want of oil. lamp-glass n. ΚΠ 1521 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Paied for a lampe glasse jd. 1914 D. H. Lawrence Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd i. i. 7 She has been lighting the lamp and holds the lamp-glass. 1974 G. Jenkins Bridge of Magpies vii. 99 The condensation dripped from the lamp~glass. lamp-globe n. lamp-glow n. ΚΠ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 410 Their tunics bloodbright in a lampglow. lamp-house n. ΚΠ 1849 F. B. Head Stokers & Pokers vii. 63 The driver..then takes his lamps to the lamp-house to be cleaned and trimmed by workmen solely employed to do so. † lamp-micrometer n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1782 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 165 The instrument I am going to describe, which I call a Lamp-Micrometer, is free from all these defects. lamp-room n. ΚΠ 1895 Daily News 25 Sept. 7/2 The boatswain was in charge of the lamp-room, but did not trim the lamp. lamp-scissors n. lamp-sconce n. ΚΠ 1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 391 The golden lamp-sconce of seven golden candlesticks. lamp-screen n. ΚΠ 1877 E. Phelps Story of Avis 239 The Japanese coloring upon the lamp-screen. lamp-shine n. ΚΠ 1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. ii. xviii. 449 The uneasy warmth of the overarching trees would draw them very close, while hushed endearments took them slowly into lamp~shine. 1938 W. de la Mare Memory & Other Poems 90 He shook his rascal head, Its curls by the lamp-shine gilt. lamp-soot n. ΚΠ 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxix. 355 Our clothing..was black with lamp-soot. lamp-stand n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > stand or mat for light stand1817 candelabrum1834 lamp-mat1842 lamp-stand1893 lamp-standard1908 1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I Lamp-stand. 1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) ii. iv. 235 I found her in our drawing-room, standing beside the tall lamp-stand that half filled the bay. 1961 Bible (New Eng.) Heb. ix. 2 For a tent was prepared—the first tent—in which was the lamp-stand, and the table with the bread of the Presence. 1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate vii. 223 He then unscrewed the base of the mosaic lampstand. lamp-stead n. ΚΠ 1897 J. T. Micklethwaite Ornaments Rubric 30 We find a lamp~stead in a wall in the form of a niche. lamp-stove n. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Lamp-stove. lamp-student n. ΚΠ 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 798 Lamp-students, that study by the lamp, or candle. lamp-worm n. ΚΠ 1917 T. Hardy Moments of Vision & Misc. Verses 61 As delicate as lamp-worm's lucency. b. Objective. lamp-bearer n. ΚΠ 1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. xiv. 314 You must be my lamp bearer. lamp-bearing adj. ΚΠ 1824 J. Symmons tr. Æschylus Agamemnon 31 Such is the course of the lamp-bearing games. lamp-cleaner n. ΚΠ 1898 Daily News 17 Nov. 5/4 He gossiped with the lamp-cleaner and the porter. lamp-maker n. ΚΠ 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Lamparo, a lampe-maker. 1875 J. Lukin Carpentry & Joinery 100 A disc of talc, to be had of any lampmaker, will answer even better than tin. lamp-trimmer n. ΚΠ 1882 Navy List July 466 Lamptrimmer..in 1st Class Ships. † lamp-waster n. Obsolete ΚΠ a1639 S. Marmion Antiquary (1641) iii. i. sig. F3^v Head-scratchers, thumb-biters, lamp-wasters. c. lamp-lighting adj. and n. ΚΠ 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI xxvi. 116 The French were not yet a lamp-lighting nation. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xii. 112 We went out to a restaurant, just after lamp-lighting. lamp-locking n. (see quots.). ΚΠ 1894 Gloss. Terms Evid. Royal Comm. Labour 51/2 in Parl. Papers 1893–4 (C. 7063–VC) XXXVIII. 411 Lamp-locking station, the place in a mine where the safety-lamps of all the miners are examined and locked by an official. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 12 July 7/1 I was in the lamp-locking cabin, which is a short distance from the bottom of the shaft. d. Instrumental. lamp-decked adj. ΚΠ 1826 H. H. Milman Anne Boleyn (1827) 33 Around the lamp-deck'd altar high and dim. lamp-heated adj. ΚΠ 1875 J. Lukin Carpentry & Joinery 95 We will now describe a better class of lamp-heated case. lamp-lighted adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [adjective] > of or resembling a lamp > lit by a lamp lamp-lit1835 lamp-lighted1843 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) v. 55 The now lamp-lighted streets. † lamp-lined adj. Obsolete ΚΠ 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. viii. 174 Gedeons men by order from him brake their lamp-lined pitchers. lamp-lit adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [adjective] > of or resembling a lamp > lit by a lamp lamp-lit1835 lamp-lighted1843 1835 Court Mag. 6 82 In lamplit vistas cold and grey, The streets deserted stretch away. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iv. 65 No bigger than a glow-worm shone the tent Lamp-lit from the inner. lamp-warmed adj. ΚΠ 1850 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour liii, in New Monthly Mag. Sept. 110 Sundry lamp-warmed dishes of savoury grills. e. lamp-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [adjective] > of or resembling a lamp lamp-like1674 1674 W. Petty Disc. before Royal Soc. 95 Let there be a Lamplike Vessel of common Aquavitæ. a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 356 Fire will burn his lamp-like eyes. 1913 D. H. Lawrence Love Poems 17 But the Moon..unfurled Her white, her lamp-like shape. C2. Special combinations. † lamp-beam n. Obsolete ? a chandelier. ΚΠ 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xii. f. 151^v He ran And pulled downe a Lampbeame [L. funale] full of lyghtes. lamp-cap n. the base of an electric light bulb or lamp into which are sealed the terminals and the neck of the glass globe. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > parts of light fixture1888 dimmer switch1896 lamp-cap1899 flasher1909 light switch1912 bayonet cap1914 light button1928 light cord1930 coiled coil1935 minuterie1955 wallwasher1966 1899 W. P. Maycock Electr. Wiring iii. 324 The lamp caps are fitted with a central plunger contact. 1971 L. E. Vrenken in W. Elenbaas Fluorescent Lamps (ed. 2) v. 60 To connect a lamp to the electrical circuit a number of different lamp caps have been designed. lamp-fish n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1883 C. F. Holder in Harper's Mag. Jan. 186/1 The Scopelus resplendens..is called the brilliant lamp-fish..from the fact that it has upon its head at night a glowing light. lamp-fly n. ? a glow-worm. ΚΠ 1840 R. Browning Sordello iii. 105 Thorn-rows Alive with lamp-flies. lamp-furnace n. a furnace in which a lamp was used as the means of heating. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > types of furnace by method of operation lamp-furnace1651 wind-furnace1651 reverbatory1656 blast furnace1706 revolver1879 run-out1881 flame-furnace1888 producer1890 resistance furnace1897 induction furnace1907 suction plant1909 high-frequency induction furnace1918 solar furnace1924 roller hearth furnace1927 1651 J. French Art Distillation v. 153 There is another sort of Lamp furnaces with three candles. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 195 Therefore may you with much facility hatch three or four douzen of Eggs in a Lamp-furnace made of a few Boards, only by the heat of a Candle or Lamp. 1771 W. Hewson in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 385 I therefore prepared a lamp-furnace with a small vessel of water upon it. lamp-hole n. a hole or opening to receive a lamp; in sewers, a hole to admit of the passage of a lamp. ΚΠ 1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 55/2 Ventilator with Dirt Boxes and Lamphole Cover combined. 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 151 The second-class passengers..drenched by the rain pouring through the lamp-hole! lamp-house n. the part of a photographic enlarger or projector which houses the light-source. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > processing and printing equipment > [noun] > enlarger > part of lamp-house1912 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > viewing of photographs > [noun] > projecting on to screen > projector > parts of tinter1891 projection lens1894 lamp-house1912 slide carrier1953 flash-meter1957 slide changer1959 1912 J. F. Hodges Opening & Operating Motion Pict. Theatre 49 (caption) Lamp house. 1916 R. E. Welsh A-B-C of Motion Pict. 17 In the first place, there is a ‘lamp-house’, a small cabinet which contains the light. 1933 Discovery Mar. 90/1 The illuminant itself [is] enclosed in a lamp house which is glazed with a filter of the same type as that used in the camera. 1971 L. B. Happé Basic Motion Pict. Technol. x. 306 A xenon arc lamp can be substituted for a carbon arc in an existing lamphouse optical system but it is preferable to have a complete lamphouse designed around the new source. † lamp-iron n. Obsolete a projecting iron rod from which a lamp was suspended; in the French Revolution sometimes used as a gallows. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > gallows gallowsOE gallows-treea1000 warytre?a1200 gibbet?c1225 gallow-forka1250 forkc1275 juisec1320 forchesc1380 crossa1382 treec1425 patible1428 justice1484 potencec1500 haltera1533 turning-tree1548 potentc1550 three treesa1566 chates1567 mare1568 furel1587 bough1590 gibe1590 derrickc1600 hangrella1605 cross-tree1638 Gregorian tree1641 wooden horse1642 timber-marec1650 triple tree1651 furca1653 nubbing1673 a horse that was foaled of an acorn1678 nub1699 Tyburn tree1728 raven-stone1738 picture frame1785 crap1789 lamp-iron1790 Moll Blood1818 stifler1818 scragging-post1819 government signposta1828 leafless tree1830 shuggie-shue1836 doom-tree1837 stob1860–62 the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > device for suspending lamp-iron1790 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 132 Though the latter should act with the libel and the lamp-iron . View more context for this quotation 1831 Soc. Life Eng. & Fr. 411 The lamp-iron yet remains at the corner of the Place de Greve, to which Foulon..was suspended in July 1790. 1851 S. Warner Wide Wide World I. i. 10 The lamplighter..hooked his ladder on the lamp-irons, ran up and lit the lamp. lamp-jack n. U.S. (see quot.). ΚΠ a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 526/1 Lamp jack (Railway), a hood over a lamp chimney on the roof of a car. lamp-man n. (a) a manufacturer of or dealer in lamps; (b) one who has charge of or tends lamps. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in other specific articles ironmonger1164 ointer1263 bowyer1297 jewellera1382 fletcher1457 stapler1532 India merchant1618 tobacconist1657 colourman1663 tobacconer1701 lamp-man1704 drysalter1707 snuffman1723 wet-salter1725 potman1732 material man1778 tobacco-trader1840 dogman1860 stamp-dealer1863 waste-dealer1876 pearler1881 the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > one who makes or looks after lamp-man1704 lampist1839 lamps1866 the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > one in charge of lamp-man1876 lamper1886 1704 London Gaz. No. 4060/6 Lamp-men, Ironmongers, Brasiers. 1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl VII. vii. 280 Fiddlers, tailors, lampmen, and all sorts of trades. 1876 F. S. Williams Midland Railway 655 The driver..now takes his lamps to the lamphouse to be cleaned and trimmed by the lamp~men. 1892 Daily News 3 Mar. 5/6 The lamp man inside..hands out the check and a lamp to collier No. 46. lamp-mat n. a mat on which a table-lamp is placed. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > stand or mat for light stand1817 candelabrum1834 lamp-mat1842 lamp-stand1893 lamp-standard1908 1842 Spirit of Times 15 Oct. 389/2 (Weingarten) Also to Miss Waterman..[a diploma] for various specimens of her exquisite work of lamp mats. 1856 Trans. Michigan Agric. Soc. 7 700 Some beautiful lamp-mats and other worsted and crochet work. 1873 Young Englishwoman June 302/1 Embroidered border for lamp-mat. 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi xxxviii. 400 Lamp..standing on a gridiron, so to speak, made of high-colored yarns, by the young ladies of the house, and called a lamp-mat. lamp-moss n. moss used as material for lamp-wicks. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > [noun] > oil-lamp > wick > material for lamp-moss1865 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xii. 401 The women have lamps and stone-kettles, lamp-moss [etc.]. lamp-shell n. a brachiopod, esp. one of the genus Terebratula or family Terebratulidæ. ΚΠ 1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 209 The Brachiopoda are bivalve shell-fish... Their forms are symmetrical, and so commonly resemble antique lamps, that they were called lampades, or ‘lamp-shells’, by the old naturalists. 1876 T. H. Huxley Amer. Addr. (1877) ii. 36 One of the cretaceous lamp-shells (Terebratula). lamp-socket n. = lamp-holder n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > holder for lamp-holder1885 lamp-socket1908 1908 Westm. Gaz. 27 Oct. 6/1 A small transformer can be placed in the lamp-socket. 1968 Lighting Equipm. News Mar. 23/1 The adaptor fits into the existing lamp socket. lamp-standard n. a post or other strong support for a lamp. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > stand or mat for light stand1817 candelabrum1834 lamp-mat1842 lamp-stand1893 lamp-standard1908 1908 Daily Chron. 5 Aug. 3/5 A motor fire engine..collided with a lamp standard. 1967 Lighting Equipm. News Jan. 26/3 The complete lamps and lamp standard are constructed on zinc coated sheet metal and painted. lamp-wick n. (a) the wick of a lamp; (b) the labiate plant Phlomis Lychnites. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > [noun] > oil-lamp > wick wickc1000 lamp-wick1845 1845 C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 135 Miss Teeny had picked up the lamp-wick with a pin several times. 1863 M. J. Berkeley Handbk. Brit. Mosses ix. 39 One species [of moss] affords a substitute for lampwicks to the Esquimaux. lamp-worker n. (see quot. 1962). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > glass-maker > [noun] > involved in specific process glass-blower?1518 annealer1656 sarole-man1662 lamp-worker1665 leer man1849 founder1853 wetter-off1883 smalt-maker1921 smalter1923 presser1962 firer1998 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 209 The blowing of Glass into exceeding thin shells, and then breaking them into scales, which any lamp-worker will presently do. 1962 Gloss. Terms Glass Industry (B.S.I.) 46 Lamp worker, a worker who forms glassware from tubing or rod by heating in an oxy-gas or air-gas flame at a work bench. 1970 Canad. Antiques Collector Apr. 26/2 He may..watch a lampworker forming ornaments from glass softened over a gas torch. Draft additions 1997 plural. (With capital initial.) A nickname for a person responsible for looking after lamps, esp. on board ship. ?Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > one who makes or looks after lamp-man1704 lampist1839 lamps1866 society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > sailors with other specific duties on ship sounder1575 carpenter1626 marshal1626 mastman1649 master of voyage1771 tierer1825 legger1831 call boy1835 bellboy1851 paymaster1852 snubber1853 leadsman1857 lamps1866 berther1867 bailer1883 waistboater1891 tanky1909 planesman1945 1866 All Year Round Extra Christmas No. 10 Dec. 6/1 The answer to his inquiry, ‘Where's Lamps?’ was..that it was his off-time. 1900 F. T. Bullen Men of Merchant Service 152 How can a sailor be expected to show due deference to a man, who, after all, is only ‘Lamps’. 1919 E. O'Neill Moon of Caribbees 18 Fetch a light, Lamps, that's a good boy. 1933 M. Lowry Ultramarine ii. 62 Both Lamps and Chips have been up for ten minutes. Draft additions 1997 lamp-working n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with glass > [noun] > specific processes annealing1662 snip-work1703 founding1783 glass-blowing1829 nibbling1850 lamp-working1925 1925 Hodkin & Cousen Textbk. Glass Technol. xxxvi. 483 For lamp-working and general purposes a soft soda-lime glass is preferred. 1976 Canadian Collector (Toronto) Mar.–Apr. 38/3 Lampworking for him was both profitable work and an absorbing hobby. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † lampn.² Etymology: ? for lampne , < Latin lāmina* (compare lame n.¹). Obsolete. rare. ? A plate. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > closure for a vessel, tube, etc. > lid lidc1000 coverclec1384 lampc1386 cover1459 covertil1463 coverturea1475 covering1479 cure1502 shed1612 bred1808 top1958 c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 211 And in an erthen potte how put is al..And wel y-covered with a lampe [v.r. lamp, laumpe] of glas. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2021). lampv.¹ Brit. /lamp/, U.S. /læmp/ Etymology: < lamp n.¹ 1. intransitive. To shine. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > shine [verb (intransitive)] shinec725 brighteOE blika1000 lightOE shimmera1100 starec1225 lightena1382 blikena1400 glowa1400 sheenc1420 flourish1587 to stick off1604 lamp1609 skyre1677 gloze1820 moon1885 1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) viii. lxiv. 219 A cheerliness did with her hopes arise, That lamped cleerer then it did before. 1820 L. Hunt tr. Theocritus in Indicator 8 Mar. 175 An evil fire out of their eyes came lamping. 1827–35 N. P. Willis Scholar of Thebet Ben Khorat 37 White-brow'd Vesta, lamping on her path Lonely and planet-calm. 1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 5345 Fire—with smoke—All night went lamping on! 2. transitive. To supply with lamps. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [verb (transitive)] > supply with lamps or a lantern lamp1602 lantern?1833 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iii. i. sig. E3 Set tapers to the toumbe, & lampe the Church. c1604 Charlemagne (1938) i. 8 To play with Luna or newe lampe ye starres. 1889 G. Findlay Working & Managem. Eng. Railway 128 Men engaged at out stations in cleaning, lamping, and examining carriages. 3. transferred. To light as with a lamp. ΚΠ 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad ix. 317 Like one surrounding sky Lamp'd with reverberant fires. 1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 515 Falling stars..Lamping the red horizon fitfully. 1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. II. vi. 212 Scattered lights Lamping the rush and roll of the abyss. figurative.1890 E. Gosse in Athenæum 10 May 605/2 A star to lamp Man's heart to heaven. 4. To transmit (a message) by means of a lamp. ΚΠ 1912 E. Wallace Private Selby xxxi. 280 A message in triple code was ‘lamped’ from the British Headquarters to the Rochester regiment. 5. slang (originally U.S.). To see, look at, recognize, watch. Cf. lamp n.¹ 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > look at or behold to look to ——eOE showeOE lookeOE lookOE behold971 beseec1000 seeOE to see on ——OE yseeOE yseeOE belookc1175 to look against ——c1225 to lay eyes onc1230 biwaita1250 holde1303 aseea1325 to see upon ——a1350 rewardc1350 to look of ——?c1400 eyea1425 visage1450 aviewa1513 gove1513 regard1523 to look unto ——1545 respect1567 survise1600 aspect1610 reflect1611 inspeculate1694 spectate1709 to look for ——1786 deek1825 lookit1908 lamp1916 1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap v. 198 Stella..was standing on the centre table by now, so she could lamp herself in the glass over the mantel. 1921 Adventure (U.S.) 18 July 42/2 But she lamps me auburn mug all to oncet an' draws back sudden, like I was a rattler. 1923 L. J. Vance Baroque viii. 50 Nobody even lamped its number. 1928 E. Wallace Again Sanders x. 259 These niggers have lamped the gats. 1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock iii. ii. 113 Afraid we'd lamp you if you didn't change your mug? 1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock v. i. 190 Come an' lamp the bathing belles. 1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xi. 96 One of the fellows from Central has only to lamp you coming in here, and we all go up. 1962 R. Cook Crust on its Uppers ii. 34 We were dying to have a butchers and lamp all the new bird. 1969 R. Busby Robbery Blue iii. 26 I'd like to know how the coppers got on to us. They couldn't have lamped us on the road. Derivatives lamped adj. ΚΠ 1822 ‘B. Cornwall’ Let. Boccaccio iv Some lampéd feast. Draft additions 1997 transitive and intransitive. To hunt by lamping (sense 2). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (intransitive)] > hunt with light fire-hunt1807 jacklight1931 lamp1988 the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (transitive)] > hunt with light fire-hunt1807 shine1845 jack1876 jacklight1883 spotlight1918 lamp1988 1988 Shooting News & Weekly 26 Aug.–1 Sept. 9/2 Rabbits that have been unsuccessfully lamped become lamp-shy. 1991 Working Terrier Feb. 18/1 My best ever dog..was in his prime and I was lamping every chance I got. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lampv.² Brit. /lamp/, U.S. /læmp/, Scottish English /lamp/ Etymology: ? An onomatopoeic formation suggested by limp v.² Compare lamper v. Scottish. intransitive. ‘To go quickly by taking long steps’ (Jamieson). ΚΠ a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xli. 39 The stoned steed stampis Throu curage and crampis, Syn on the land lampis. 1820 W. Scott Monastery III. viii. 205 It was all her father's own fault that let her run lamping about the country, riding on bare-backed nags. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 3 Lampin' alang in joyous glee Frae jaw to jaw athort the sea. 1884 T. Speedy Sport in Highlands xvi. 278 Those who..shoot down the hares as they come unsuspectingly ‘lamping’ forward. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lampv.³ Brit. /lamp/, U.S. /læmp/ Etymology: Of uncertain origin; perhaps alteration of lam v. dialect (chiefly northern) and slang. To beat, strike; to thrash. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > illumination > illuminate [verb (transitive)] onlighteOE enlightOE alemeOE alightOE lightOE belighta1200 lightena1382 clear1382 alightenc1384 lumine1387 clarify1398 shine1398 shed1412 beamc1430 enlymec1440 illumine1447 enlumine1481 illustre1490 enclear1509 elumine1532 illuminate1535 unshadow1550 illightena1555 allumine1570 eluminate1580 unnight1594 enlighten1595 to strike up1598 illume1604 luminate1623 illustrate1625 unbenight1629 emblaze1637 burn1712 alluminate1726 lamp1808 enkindle1870 1808 in Jamieson 1895 T. Pinnock Tom Brown's Black Country Ann. (E.D.D.) I'll lamp his hide when I catch him. 1902 in Eng. Dial. Dict. III. 513/2 Ye thought ye wad lamp us, did ye? I was fairly lampet at that game. 1969 D. Griffiths Talk of my Town 21 Lamp it, kick it (e.g., a football) hard. 1985 M. Munro Patter 42 Lamp that oot the windy. 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