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Lucifer   /lˈusəfər/   Listen
noun
Lucifer  n.  
1.
The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon. "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!" "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."
2.
Hence, Satan. "How wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!... When he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again."
3.
A match (1) 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.
4.
(Zool.) A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages.






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"Lucifer" Quotes from Famous Books



... will not die without confessing himself."—The reader will find on the clergy and peasantry in the south of France details and pictures taken from life in the novels of Ferdinand Fabre ("L'abbe Tigrane," "les Courbezons," "Lucifer,," "Barnabe," "Mon Oncle Celestin," "Xaviere," ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 6 (of 6) - The Modern Regime, Volume 2 (of 2) • Hippolyte A. Taine

... his evil little paw in his dangerous pockets and draws out a wicked lucifer match, saying with abominable indifference, "Bah! what do we care? We're going to build a fire, whatever you ...
— Penelope's Postscripts • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... rescuing the stocking. "He's as strong as Lucifer. Here, Andrew, you devil, I'll break ...
— The Cathedral • Hugh Walpole

... sledge-hammer, swim like a fish—and that was all. I knew, too, every turn and track and tree for miles round; and that might be something now, and indeed, as will be seen, turned out my most precious accomplishment. Some people said I was as proud as Lucifer, others that I was as meek as a mouse, and I once overheard our Kate tell Priscilla Dobson, Jack's vinegary sister, that both were right—which confounded me, for our 'Copper Nob,' as I used to call her, was a shrewd little woman. Still, such as I was, the stranger lady should ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough

... extended from the prima luce, from the earliest dawn of radiance that streaked the "severing clouds in yonder east," through the sun's matin, meridian, postmeridian, and vesper circuit; from the disappearance of Lucifer in the re-illumined skies, to his evening entree in the character of Hesperus. Complain not of the brevity of life; 'tis men that are idle; a thousand things could be contrived and accomplished in that space, and a thousand schemes were devised by us, when ...
— The Life of Mansie Wauch - tailor in Dalkeith • D. M. Moir


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