any of various devices furnishing artificial light, as by electricity or gas. Compare fluorescent lamp , incandescent lamp .

a container for an inflammable liquid, as oil, which is burned at a wick as a means of illumination.

a source of intellectual or spiritual light

the lamp of learning.

any of various devices furnishing heat, ultraviolet, or other radiation

an infrared lamp.

a celestial body that gives off light, as the moon or a star.

a torch.

lamps, Slang . the eyes.

Slang . to look at; eye. ?

smell of the lamp

to give evidence of laborious study or effort

His dissertation smells of the lamp.

noun

beacon , flashlight , gas lamp , gaslight , hurricane lamp , kerosene lamp , light , searchlight , torch , arc , bulb , chandelier , davy , electric , floor , gas , incandescent , lantern , oil , table