Davy lamp

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• davy

  I'll take my davy of it; vulgar abbreviation of affidavit. ...

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• Lamp

  ·noun A thin plate or lamina. II. Lamp ·noun A device or mechanism for producing light by electrici...

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• Lamp

  1) That part of the candle-sticks of the tabernacle and the temple which bore the light (Ex. 25:37; ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• lamp

  An eye. The cove has a queer lamp. The man has a blind or squinting eye. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Lamp

  That part of the golden candlestick belonging to the tabernacle which bore the light; also of each o...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Davy Jones

  ·- The spirit of the sea; sea devil; — a term used by sailors. ...

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• davy jones

  The spirit of the sea; a nikker; a sea-devil. ...

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• Argand lamp

  ·- A lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and...

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• Blast lamp

  ·add. ·- A lamp provided with some arrangement for intensifying combustion by means of a blast. ...

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• Carcel lamp

  ·- A French mechanical lamp, for lighthouses, in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick...

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• Fresnel lamp

  ·- ·Alt. of Fres'nel' lan'tern. ...

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• Lamp-post

  ·noun A post (generally a pillar of iron) supporting a lamp or lantern for lighting a street, park, ...

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• Pilot lamp

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Pilot light. ...

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• Tungsten lamp

  ·add. ·- An electric glow lamp having filaments of metallic tungsten. Such lamps, owing to the refra...

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• slush-lamp

  n. a lamp made by filling an oldtin with fat and putting a rag in for wick. The word, thoughnot excl...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• fumigation-lamp

  An invention for purifying the air in hospital-ships and close places. ...

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• lamp-shells

  A name applied to the Terebratulæ of zoologists. ...

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• Davy, Sir Humphrey

  (1778-1829) Chemist and man of letters, s. of a wood-carver, was b. at Penzance. He early showed an...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• davy jones's locker

  The ocean; the common receptacle for all things thrown overboard; it is a phrase for death or the ot...

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• roman-lamp shell

  name given in Tasmania to abrachiopod mollusc, Waldheimia flavescens, Lamarck. ...

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