Definition of: lamp

(lamp) noun
1. A vessel in which oil is burnt through a wick; hence, any device employing a flame, incandescent wire, or the like, for furnishing an artificial light, or a similar device for heating. ♦ Collateral adjective: lucernal.
2. Anything that gives out light, actually or metaphorically.
3. A flash, as of lightning.
4. A heavenly body.
5. A torch.
6. plural Slang The eyes.
—v.t. Slang To look at. [<OF lampe <L lampas <Gk. <lampein shine]