[f. LAMP sb.1]
1. intr. To shine. Also fig.
1609. Daniel, Civ. Wars, VIII. lxiv. A cheerliness did with her hopes arise That lamped cleerer then it did before.
1820. L. Hunt, Indicator, No. 22 (1822), I. 175. An evil fire out of their eyes came lamping.
1827–35. Willis, Scholar of Thebet Ben Khorat, 37. White-brow’d Vesta, lamping on her path Lonely and planet-calm.
1875. Browning, Aristoph. Apol., 5345. Fire—with smoke—All night went lamping on!
2. trans. To supply with lamps.
c. 1600[?]. Distracted Emp., I. i. in Bullen, O. Pl., III. 172. To play with Luna or newe lampe the starres.
1602. Marston, Antonio’s Rev., III. i. Wks. 1856, I. 105. Set tapers to the toumbe, and lampe the church.
1889. G. Findlay, Eng. Railway, 128. Men engaged at out stations in cleaning, lamping, and examining carriages.
3. transf. To light as with a lamp.
1808. J. Barlow, Columb., IX. 5. Like one surrounding sky Lamp’d with reverberant fires.
1839. Bailey, Festus, xxxi. (1852), 515. Falling stars … Lamping the red horizon fitfully.
1868. Browning, Ring & Bk., VI. 1173. Scattered lights Lamping the rush and roll of the abyss.
fig. 1890. E. Gosse, in Athenæum, 10 May, 605/2. A star to lamp Man’s heart to heaven.
Hence Lamped ppl. a.
1822. B. W. Procter, Let. of Boccaccio, iv. Some lampéd feast.
