lampas 
lampaai.lampassnam'pas), , [Corruptly towi- 
fifm; < OF. and F. liim/iits, lampas (see def.), 
prob. < lampas, tho palate or throat, in the 
phrase arroser (or ////</) (n lampas, 'wet 
one's whistle,' appar. connected with laii>er, 
drink: see lampoon.'] In farriery, a congestion 
and swelling of the (leshy lining of the roof of 
the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth 
iu the horse. It soon subsides if left to itself. 
His horse . . . troubled with the tampon. 
Skat., T. .f the S., lit 2. 62. 
lampas' 2 (lam' pas) , . [NL. , < Or. > o/iTcif , a lamp : 
see lamp'-.] 1. PI. iomparfe* (-pa-dez). An early 
quasi-generic or collective name of the lamp- 
shells, or such of the arthropomatous brachio- 
pods as were known a century ago, especially 
TerebrattllidfE. The word is not now used as the name 
of a genus, and has a plural, gee lampade. Sometimes 
spelled lamptu. 
2. [ay;.] A genus of Foraminifera : same as ./to- 
bulina. Montfort, 1808. 3. fcap.] A genus of 
gastropods, closely related to Ravella. Schu- 
macher, 1817. 
lampas 3 (lam'pas), n. [< F. lampas (see def.).] 
Originally, Chinese flowered silk; hence, in 
modern times, a material of decorative charac- 
ter for upholstery, made of silk and wool. 
lampass, . See lampas 1 . 
lampblack (lamp'blak), n. [< lamp 1 + black, 
being orig. made by means of a lamp or torch.] 
A fine black pigment consisting of particles of 
carbon, pure or almost pure, used for making 
paints and ink. It reflects only about two per cent, 
of the incident light. It was formerly made by burning 
crude oils with the least supply of air possible for com- 
bustion, in order to produce a smoky flume, the soot be- 
iug collected in a receptacle called a lampblack-furnace, 
and was prepared for use by being heated to redness in iron 
boxes. It is now generally made by allowing gas-flames to 
impinge on cylinders of iron chilled by a stream of cold 
water flowing through them. The lampblack collects on 
the cold surfaces, 
and is removed and 
collected by ma- 
chinery. This form 
of lampblack is 
known as carbon- 
black or gas-black. 
Lampblack-fur- 
nace, a cylindrical 
chamber lined with 
sheepskin or can- 
vas, with a cone- 
shupcd top having a 
cowl for the escape 
of the more vola- 
tile products of com- 
bustion. At one side 
of the chamber is 
a smaller compart- 
ment with a grate, 
over the flre in 
which is placed a 
vessel containing a 
hydrocarbon, resin, 
coal-tar, or a similar 
substance. The carbon product of combustion adheres to 
the lining of the furnace-chamber, from which it is scraped 
by a special mechanism and collected at intervals. E. II. 
Knight. 
lampblack (lamp'blak), '. t. [< lampblack, .] 
To treat with lampblack ; coat with lampblack. 
You that newly come from lamblacking the Judges 
Shoes, and are not lit to wipe mine. 
Wychrrlty, Plain Dealer, ill. 1. 
The thickly lampblaclced surface, then, and the retinal 
screen provided by nature in the eye, both exercise selec- 
tive absorption. PhUotophical Mag., XXVII. '. 
lamp-burner (lamp'ber'ner), . That part of or 
attachment to a lamp at or in which the wick is 
krpt, burning. Lamp-burners are made in a great num- 
ber of types and sizes. The simplest, as those of common 
spirit-lamps, are merely tubes of sheet-metal; but they 
usually include some device, as a serrated wheel, for raising 
and lowering the wick, a hood of some form to concentrate 
a current of air on the flame, and often a gallery or socket, 
pierced for ventilation, to support a chimney. See burner. 
lamp-canopy (lamp'kan*o-pi), n. A large and 
elaborate smoke-bell. Car-Builder's Diet. 
lamp-case (lamp'kas), n. 1. In a street- or 
t ram-car, a box with a glazed door placed inside 
an end window to receive a lamp. A light or 
eye of colored glass is usually placed opposite it on the 
exterior side, that the light may serve as a signal. 
2. In < Jivat Britain, a cylindrical sheet of iron 
serving to protect the roof-lamp of a railway- 
carriage. Cur-Iliiililt'r'.i Diet. 
lamp-cement (lamp'se-ment'), n. A cement 
for securing brass mountings on glass, as on 
lamps. It is made by boiling 3 parts of resin with 1 
part of caustic soda in 5 parts of water. The resulting 
soap is mixed with half its weight of plaster of Paris, zinc 
white, white lead, or precipitated chalk. Petroleum anil 
burning-fluids of similar character do not affect it. /.'. //. 
Knight. 
lamp-chimney (larap'chim'ni), n. A tube or 
funnel of glass or other material so placed as to 
incase the flame of a lamp, iu use is to protect 
Lampblack-furnace. 
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the flame, promote combustion by increasing the draft, 
nnl "induct away the smoke and gages. 
lamp-cone (lamp'kon), . A conical or dome- 
shaped cap of sheet-metal covering the bun in- 
of an oil-lamp, and having a slit in the top 
through which the flame projects. It serves to 
promote combustion by concentrating air-cur- 
rents on both sides of the flame. 
lamper ' (lam'per), . One who goes from house 
to house every day cleaning and filling lamps 
for a small fee. [Colloq., U. 8.] 
lamper- (lam'per), H. A dialectal variation of 
lanipri'i/. 
lamper-eel (lam'per-el'), n. [< lamper" + eel, 
from the resemblance in form to an eel.] 1. 
A lamprey. 2. The mutton-fish or eel-pout, 
Zoarces anyuillaris, a fish of the family Lycodi- 
'/<>. inhabiting the Atlantic coast of North 
America from Labrador to Delaware, and rep- 
resenting a section of the genus Zoarces in 
which the fin-rays and vertebrae are increased 
in number. It U of a reddish -brown color, mottled with 
olive, and has a dark streak along the side of the head ; it 
attains a length of 20 inches. 
lampern (lam'pern), n. [See lamprey."] The 
river-lamprey, Petromyzon fluviatilis. 
lampers (lam'perz), n. See lampas 1 . 
lampet (lam'pet), . A dialectal (Scotch) form 
of limpet. 
Lampetra (lam'pe-trS), n. [L., a lamprey: see 
lamprey.'] If. An old quasi-generic book-name 
of a lamprey. Willughby, 1636. 2. A genus of 
river-lampreys, as L. fluviatilis. SeeAmmocoetes 
and lamprey. 
lamp-flower (lamp'flou'er), . Any plant of 
the genus Lychnis. 
lamp-fly (lamp'fli), . A firefly. [Bare.] 
While in and out the terrace plants, and round 
One branch of tall datura, waxed and waned 
The lampjly lured there, wanting the white flower. 
Browning, King and Book, i. 496. 
lampfult, a. [< lamp 1 + -Jul.~] Full of lamps or 
lights; starry. 
A temporal! beauty of the lamp/till skies, 
Where powcrfull Nature showes her freshest Dies. 
Sylvester, it. of Du Bartas s Weeks, ii., The Ark. 
lamp-furnace (lamp'fer'nas), n. A furnace in 
which the heat is afforded by a lamp, as distin- 
guished from one heated by a gas-jet, a Bunsen 
burner, charcoal, or the like. E. H. Knight. 
lamp-glass (lamp'glas), n. Same as lamp- 
chimney. 
lamp-globe (lamp'glob), n. A lamp-abode or 
lamp-chimney of a globular form. 
lamp-hanger (lamp hang* er), . A device for 
supporting a gas-lamp suspended below a chan- 
delier; a lamp-elevator. It has usually a telescopic 
gas-pipe, and some attachment such as a lazy-tongs or bal- 
anced chains, for raising or lowering the lamp. 
lamp-head (lamp'hed), n, 1. The part of an 
incandescent electric lamp that fits into the 
holder. 2. The electromotive force in an elec- 
tric lamp. 
lamp-holder (lamp'hoFder), n. A device for 
securing a lamp to its support ; specifically, a 
socket or holder fitted with electric terminals, 
into which the top of the glass globe of an in- 
candescent lamp is fitted, or from which it 
hangs. 
lamp-hole (lamp'hol), . A hole or opening to 
receive a lamp, or to admit of the passage of a 
lamp, as in some sewers. 
Smaller openings, large enough to allow a lamp to be 
lowered for purposes of inspection, are called lamphdeg, 
and are often built up of vertical lengths of drain-pipe. 
Encyc. Brit., XXI. 714. 
lamp-hoop (Iamp'h8p), n. A ring with an in- 
terior screw-thread attached to a cheap oil-lamp 
to receive the burner. Car-Builder's Diet. 
lamping (lam'ping), a. [< lamp* + -in</ 2 .] 
Shining; sparkling. [Rare.] 
And happy lines ! on which, with starry light, 
Those lamping eyes will deigne sometimes to look. 
Spenttr, Sonnets, I. 
lampion (lam'pi-on), n. [P., a small lamp, < 
Inmjie, a lamp: see lamp 1 .] A small lamp suit- 
able for illuminations. 
At the French Chancellerie they had six more tampions 
in their Illumination than ours had. Thackeray. 
Eh ? Down the court three lampions flare ; 
Put forward your best foot. 
Brmminy, Respectability. 
Hidden among the leaves were millions of fantastically 
colored tampion* seeming like so many glow-worms. 
Q. ff. Cable, Stories of Louisiana, vv. 
lamp-iron (lampVern), n. A metallic socket 
or holder to receive a lamp or lantern, as on a 
railway-carriage. [British.] 
lampist (lam'pist\ H. [= F. lampist; as lamp 
+ -mt.1 1. A workman skilled in the manufac- 
lamprey 
ture and repair of lamps; specifically, an artisan 
employed in the United States lighthouse es- 
tablish ment for that work. 
I have submitted the lamp burning Petroleum to the 
Inspection of the most experienced lamputi who were ac- 
eewlble. 
Xitliinan, quoted in Cone and Johns'i i'etrolia, Ir. 
2. See the quotation. 
Allampadati, or Lamputt, who during Passion Week and 
at the great festivals begged oil for the lamps which are 
lighted In front of the host, or the linage! of the virgin. 
liiUun Turner, Vagrant* and Vagrancy, p. 659. 
lampit (lam'pit), n. A dialectal (Scotch) form 
of limpet. 
lamp-jack (lamp'jak), n. A hood or covering 
placed over a lamp-vent or lamp-chimney on 
the outside of a railroad-car, to shield the light 
from rain and wind. E. ff. Knight. 
lamplight (lamp'lit), n. The light shed by a 
lamp or lamps. 
Oold glittering thro' lamplight dim. 
Tennytun, Arabian Xlghts. 
lamplighter (lamp'li'ter), w. [< lampl + 
lii/li li-ri.] 1 . A person employed to light street- 
lamps. 2. A piece of paper rolled into a spill, 
used to light lamps. 3. A torch used for light- 
ing gas-lamps. 4. The bass (fish). [Local, 
U.S.] 
lampoon (Iam-p8n'), n. [< F. tampon, a lam- 
poon, orig. a drinking-song. < lamponSj let us 
drink, 1st pers. pi. impv. of lamper, drink, na- 
salized form of OF. lapper, taper, drink, of OLQ. 
origin, AS. lapian, etc., lap, drink: see lapl, r.] 
A sarcastic writing aimed at a person's charac- 
ter, habits, or actions; a personal satire ; a sar- 
castic diatribe ; humorous abuse in writing. 
Here they still paste up their drolling lampoons and 
scurrilous papers. Evelyn, Diary, Feb. 20, 1645. 
These personal and scandalous libels, carried to excess 
in the reign of Charles II., acquired the name of lampoon, 
from the burden sung to them : " Lampone, lampone, 
camerada lampone" "Guzzler, guzzler, my fellow gui- 
zler." Scott. 
= Byn. Lampoon, Patqtdnade, Infective, Satire. The dif- 
ference between lampoon and pasquinade is not great, but 
perhaps a lampoon is more malicious, more directly aimed 
iu insult and degrade, while a patquinade is shorter and 
of a lighter nature. (See the history of pasquinade, under 
the definition. See alao natire.) An iucective Is a ver- 
bal onslaught, generally spoken but possibly written, de- 
signed to bring reproach upon another person, present or 
absent : as, the incectirei of Demosthenes against Philip, 
of Cicero against Verres, of Queen Margaret against Rich- 
ard (Shale., Rich. III., i. 8). An invective diners from a 
satire in its intensity and in its lack of reformatory pur- 
pose. 
lampoon (Iam-p8n'), v. t. [< lampoon, n.] To 
abuse in a lampoon ; write lampoons against. 
It cannot be supposed that the same man who 2am- 
pooned Plato would spare Pythagoras. Obttrcrr, No. 142. 
lampooner (Iam-p8'n6r), n. One who lampoons 
or abuses with personal satire; a writer of a 
lampoon or lampoons, 
lampoonry (Iam-p8n'ri), w. [< lampoon + -ry.] 
Tho act of lampooning ; written personal abuse 
or satire. Stcift. 
lamporst, " [Origin not ascertained.] A sort 
of tnin silk. Nares. 
Before the stoole of estate salt another mayde, all clothyd 
In white, and her face coveryd with white lamport. 
Letter dated IKS. 
lamp-pendant -<lamp'pen"dant), . A hang- 
ing frame or grating, or luster-shaped struc- 
ture, arranged for holding one or more lamps. 
lamp-plug (lamp'plug), n. In Great Britain, a 
cylindrical piece of wood secured to a lamp- 
case by a chain, and used to fill the lamp-aper- 
ture in a roof when the lamp is not in place. 
Car-Builder's Diet. 
lamp-protector (lamp'pro-tek'tor). . In Great 
Britain, a sheet-iron cover hinged to a lamp- 
case and secured by a spring-catch, to protect 
the lamp from rain, while allowing the smoke 
to escape. The American equivalent is lamp- 
jack. Par-Builder's Diet. 
lamp-pruner (lamp'prS'ner), n. An imple- 
ment for cleaning and picking the wicks of a 
lamp. 
lampreelt (lam-prel'), a. [A contr. of lamper- 
eel: see lamprey.] A lamper-eel or lamprey. 
Lampreelt that ingender with snakes, and are full of eyes 
on both sides. Martton and Wettttr, Malcontent, i. :.. 
lamprelt (lam'prel), H. A lamprey in a certain 
stage of growth. See quotation under lamprey. 
lamprett (lam'pret), w. [See lamprey.'] A lam- 
prey in a certain stage of growth. See quota- 
tion under lamprey. 
lamprey (lam'pri), . [Also in variant or deriv. 
forms lamper, tom/iem, lumpron, lament, lam- 
pn-l, etc. ; < ME. lamprrir. < < >F. Vw/>rei>, lam- 
proie, F. lamproie = Pr. lamprada = Sp. Pg./flm- 
