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Expend :: Expend (v. t.) To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations..

Poonga Oil :: Poonga oil () A kind of oil used in India for lamps, and for boiling with dammar for pitching vessels. It is pressed from the seeds of a leguminous tree (Pongamia glabra)..

Lantern :: Lantern (n.) Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light..

Lucubrate :: Lucubrate (n.) To study by candlelight or a lamp; to study by night.

Vyce :: Vyce (n.) A kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it.

Cric :: Cric (n.) The ring which turns inward and condenses the flame of a lamp.

Lampadrome :: Lampadrome (n.) A race run by young men with lighted torches in their hands. He who reached the goal first, with his torch unextinguished, gained the prize..

Elamping :: Elamping (a.) Shining.

Cam :: Cam (n.) A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together..

Lampyris :: Lampyris (n.) A genus of coleopterous insects, including the glowworms..

Brick :: Brick (n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp..

Petromyzont :: Petromyzont (n.) A lamprey.

Sea Lamprey :: Sea lamprey () The common lamprey.

Oxidator :: Oxidator (n.) A contrivance for causing a current of air to impinge on the flame of the Argand lamp; -- called also oxygenator.

Lamplighter :: Lamplighter (n.) One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps..

Clamp :: Clamp (n.) A mollusk. See Clam.

Turreted :: Turreted (a.) Formed like a tower; as, a turreted lamp..

Glowworm :: Glowworm (n.) A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvae of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments..

Lampic :: Lampic (a.) Pertaining to, or produced by, a lamp; -- formerly said of a supposed acid..

Iambize :: Iambize (v. t.) To satirize in iambics; to lampoon.

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