Definition of "night-lamp" []

• A lamp specially adapted to be kept burning during the night in a bedroom. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "For seven years I have never gone to bed without going first to see the light of her night-lamp, or her shadow on the window curtains."
• "By the pale night-lamp he could see her sweet, pale face — the purple eyelids were fringed and closed, and one round arm, smooth and white, lay outside of the coverlet."
• "The truth is, though she had been lying quite still and silent, she had not been asleep one instant, but had been looking at the night-lamp in the chimney, and had been thinking of Pen for hours and hours."