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Definition of Lucifers
1. lucifer [n] - See also: lucifer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lucifers
Literary usage of Lucifers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum or collections towards a ...by Walter Arthur Copinger by Walter Arthur Copinger (1902)
"1493 : lucifers mit seiner gesellschafft val. S ta gn M us 1483, Kai. Sextil.
: Castro, lect. super JH 10278. ..."
2. Chemical Technology; Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to the Arts and by Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Henry Watts, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (1865)
"lucifers without Sulphur.—Some matches, instead of being coated at the ends with
sulphur, are impregnated throughout with stearic acid or wax. ..."
3. At Home in the Wilderness: Being Full Instructions how to Get Along, and to by John Keast Lord (1867)
"... Commission—Effects of Cold—A Caution to be remembered—To procure a Light from
two pieces of Wood—Getting a Light with a Gun—How to carry lucifers. ..."
4. The Chemist: A Monthly Journal of Chemical and Physical Science (1843)
"Into the thick pappy mase of phosphorus wlu'ch remains in the phial the extremities
of the lucifers are steeped, and, after some time, when they have become ..."