Also spirit lamp. [SPIRIT sb.] A lamp fed by methylated or other spirits, and used esp. for heating, boiling or cooking.
1802. Phil. Trans., XCIII. 14. The … solution, gently exhaled to dryness, and kept over a spirit-lamp.
1838. T. Thomson, Chem. Org. Bodies, 372. Having put on the cover, the flame of a spirit-lamp was applied beneath the indigo.
1893. Lady I. Burton, Life R. F. Burton, II. 8. Our hosts are astir, and already … drinking tea made over a spirit-lamp.
attrib. 1827. Faraday, Chem. Manip., vi. (1842), 186. In operations of this kind, heat is applied … by a small spirit lamp flame.
