[f. LAMP v.1 + -ING2. Perh. suggested by It. lampante.] Flashing, beaming, resplendent.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., III. iii. 1. Most sacred fyre,… ykindled first above Emongst th’ eternall spheres and lamping sky.
1610. G. Fletcher, Christ’s Vict., I. x. Her eye with heav’ns, so, and more brightly shin’d Her lamping sight.
1828. Blackw. Mag., XXIII. 688. His bright forehead … and his large lamping eyes.
1859. Ld. Lytton, Wanderer, 8. Hot oleanders in a rosy vale Searched by the lamping fly.
1885. R. F. Burton, Arab. Nts., V. 353. She flew off, like the wafts of the wind or the lamping leven.
