Lamping
(Lamp"ing) a. Shining; brilliant. [Obs.] "Lamping eyes." Spenser.
Lampless
(Lamp"less), a. Being without a lamp, or without light; hence, being without appreciation; dull.
Your ladies' eyes are lampless to that virtue.
Beau. & Fl. Lamplight
(Lamp"light`) n. Light from a lamp.
This world's artificial lamplights.
Owen Meredith. Lamplighter
(Lamp"light`er) n.
1. One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps.
2. (Zoöl.) The calico bass.
Lampoon
(Lam*poon") n. [F. lampon a drinking song, fr. lampons let us drink, — the burden of such
a song, fr. lamper to guzzle, to drink much and greedily; of German origin, and akin to E. lap to drink.
Prob. so called because drinking songs often contain personal slander or satire.] A personal satire in
writing; usually, malicious and 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. Lampoon
(Lam*poon"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lampooned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Lampooning.] To subject
to abusive ridicule expressed in writing; to make the subject of a lampoon.
Ribald poets had lampooned him.
Macaulay. Syn. — To libel; defame; satirize; lash.
Lampooner
(Lam*poon"er) n. The writer of a lampoon. "Libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers."
Tatler.
