Found 1 hit - Term: lucifer match, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lucifer \lu"cifer\, n. l., bringing light, n., the morning
star, fr. lux, lucis, light + ferre to bring.
1913 webster
1. the planet venus, when appearing as the morning star; --
applied in isaiah by a metaphor to a king of babylon.
1913 webster
how art thou fallen from heaven, o lucifer, son of
the morning how art thou cut down to the ground
which didst weaken the nations --is. xiv. 12.
1913 webster
tertullian and gregory the great understood this
passage of isaiah in reference to the fall of satan;
in consequence of which the name lucifer has since
been applied to satan. --kitto.
1913 webster
2. hence, satan.
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how wretched
is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors . .
.
when he falls, he falls like lucifer,
never to hope again. --shak.
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3. a match1 made of a sliver of wood tipped with a
combustible substance, and ignited by friction; -- called
also lucifer match, and locofoco, now most commonly
referred to as a friction match. see locofoco.
1913 webster
4. zool. a genus of free-swimming macruran crustacea,
having a slender body and long appendages.
1913 webster
see also:
lucifer match locofoco friction match locofoco
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