1. Noun
The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon.
2. Noun
Hence, Satan.
3. 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.
4. Noun
A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages.
5. Noun
a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky
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