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Nov 30, 2009
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lamp



Pronunciation: (lamp), [key]
—n.
1. any of various devices furnishing artificial light, as by electricity or gas. Cf. fluorescent lamp, incandescent lamp.
2. a container for an inflammable liquid, as oil, which is burned at a wick as a means of illumination.
3. a source of intellectual or spiritual light: the lamp of learning.
4. any of various devices furnishing heat, ultraviolet, or other radiation: an infrared lamp.
5. a celestial body that gives off light, as the moon or a star.
6. a torch.
7. lamps, Slang.the eyes.
8. smell of the lamp, to give evidence of laborious study or effort: His dissertation smells of the lamp.

—v.t.
Slang.to look at; eye.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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