noun. Any of various devices that generate light and often heat, especially.

noun. An electric device having a socket for a light bulb, especially a free-standing piece of furniture.

noun. A device that gives off ultraviolet, infrared, or other radiation, used for therapeutic purposes.

noun. A light bulb.

noun. A vessel containing oil or alcohol burned through a wick.

noun. A lantern or fixture that gives off light by burning gas, usually by means of a mantle.

noun. A celestial body that gives off or reflects light.

To furnish light to; light.

To shine.

noun. A vessel, generally portable, for containing an inflammable liquid and a wick so arranged that it lifts the liquid by capillary attraction and when ignited at the end serves as a means of illumination; in recent use also, by extension, a device employed for the same purpose in which the source of illumination is ignited gas or electricity.

noun. Figuratively, something suggesting the light of a lamp, whether in appearance or use; anything possessing or communicating light, real or metaphorical.

noun. plural Same as gig-lamps. See gig-lamp, 3.

noun. (See also carcel-lamp, glow-lamp, jack-lamp, safety-lamp.)

noun. In telephony, an auxiliary signaling-lamp placed in front of the switchboard and serving to indicate to the chief operator delay in responding to any one of a group of call-signals.

noun. A lamp having a spiral of platinum placed above the wick. The vapor from the alcohol (ethyl or methyl) drawn up by the wick unites with the air through the agency of the platinum, which is thus made to glow.

To go or run quickly; scamper.

noun. A thin plate.

noun. A thin plate or lamina.

noun. A light-producing vessel, device, instrument or apparatus

noun. Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp.

noun. A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity, usually having a glass bulb or tube containing the light-emitting element. Most lamps belong to one of two categories, the Incandescent lamp (See under Incandescent) or the fluorescent lamp. However, see also arc lamp, below.

noun. A device that emits radiant energy in the form of heat, infrared, or ultraviolet rays.

noun. a hollow ball of copper containing alcohol which is converted into vapor by a lamp beneath, so as to make a powerful blowpipe flame when the vapor is ignited.

noun. a form of lamp in which the voltaic arc is used as the source of light.

noun. an apparatus for the instantaneous production of a flame by the spontaneous ignition of a jet of hydrogen on being led over platinum sponge; -- named after the German chemist Döbereiner, who invented it. Called also philosopher's lamp.

noun. an aphlogistic lamp.

noun. the part of a lamp where the wick is exposed and ignited.

noun. a reservoir for oil, in a lamp.

noun. See 2d Jack, n., 4 (l) & (n).

noun. a screen, as of paper, glass, or tin, for softening or obstructing the light of a lamp.

noun. any brachiopod shell of the genus Terebratula and allied genera. The name refers to the shape, which is like that of an antique lamp. See Terebratula.

noun. a miner's lamp in which the flame is surrounded by fine wire gauze, preventing the kindling of dangerous explosive gases; -- called also, from Sir Humphry Davy the inventor, Davy lamp.

noun. to bear marks of great study and labor, as a literary composition.

noun. A device that generates heat, light or other radiation

noun. A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination

noun. A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.

verb. to hit, clout, belt, wallop

verb. to hunt at night using a lamp; see lamping

verb. to hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular

noun. a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs

noun. an artificial source of visible illumination

"Designed by British designer Ross Lovegrove for Yamagiwa, the Andromeda lamp is an artificial structure for capturing artificial light."

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