Lucifer

·noun Hence, Satan.

II. Lucifer ·noun A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages.

III. Lucifer ·noun The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star;

— applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon.

IV. Lucifer ·noun 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.