Lucifer

Quick meaning: Lucifer is a noun meaning Ellipsis of lucifer match, sulfur or phosphorus friction matches.

Meaning

Ellipsis of lucifer match, sulfur or phosphorus friction matches.

Example Sentences

While you’ve a lucifer to light your fag, Smile, boys, that’s the style

In the era of Twain and Grant cigar-smoking paraphernalia consisted mainly of a cigar cutter; the cigar itself was lit with a lucifer (safety match).

The invention of the Lucifer Match has brought with it many dangers. In one year, in London, there were published thirty-nine accounts of serious conflagrations through children playing with lucifers, the igniting of the matches, and the careless use of them... To guard against the recurrence of these sad results has been invented "the Safety Match," or a match which cannot ignite by friction with ordinary substances.

Word Forms

• lucifers

Synonyms for lucifer

Depending on context, synonyms include match, devil, satan.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include satan, devil, match, matches, daystar, vesper.

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