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LU'CIFER, n. [L. lux, lucis, light, and fero, to bring.]
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 ! Is. xiv. 12. 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. Hence, Satan.
How wretched A match made of a sliver of wood tipped
with a combustible substance, and ignited by friction; -- called also
lucifer match, and locofoco. See
Locofoco.
A genus of free-
swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long
appendages.
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