By him who 'mid the golden lampads went.
Trench.
Lam"pa*dist (?), n. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?;, &?;, torch. See Lamp.] (Gr.
Antiq.) One who gained the prize in the lampadrome.
Lam"pa*drome (?), n. [Gr. &?;; &?;, &?;, torch + &?; course, race, fr.
&?; to run.] (Gr. Antiq.) A race run by young men with lighted torches
in their hands. He who reached the goal first, with his torch
unextinguished, gained the prize.
Lam"pas (?), n. [F. lampas.] An inflammation and swelling of the soft
parts of the roof of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the
horse; -- called also lampers.
Lam"pate (?), n. [Cf. F. lampate.] (Chem.) A supposed salt of lampic
acid. [Obs.]
Lamp"black` (?), n. [Lamp + black.] The fine impalpable soot obtained
from the smoke of carbonaceous substances which have been only partly
burnt, as in the flame of a smoking lamp. It consists of finely divided
carbon, with sometimes a very small proportion of various impurities.
It is used as an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black
pigments and cements.
Lam"per eel` (?). (Zoöl.) See Lamprey.
Lam"pern (?), n. [See Lamprey.] (Zoöl.) The river lamprey (Ammocœtes,
or Lampetra, fluviatilis).
The name is also applied to other river lampreys.
Lam"pers (?), n. See Lampas.
Lam"pic (?), a. [F. lampique, fr. lampe lamp. See Lamp.] (Chem.)
Pertaining to, or produced by, a lamp; -- formerly said of a supposed
acid.
Lamp"ing (?), a. Shining; brilliant. [Obs.] "Lamping eyes." Spenser.
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.
Lamp"light` (?), n. Light from a lamp.
This world's artificial lamplights.
Owen Meredith.
Lamp"light`er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a
person who lights street lamps.