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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

friction match
    n 1: lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard
         tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction;
         "he always carries matches to light his pipe"; "as long
         you've a lucifer to light your fag" [syn: match,
         lucifer, friction match]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Lucifer \Lu"ci*fer\, n. [L., bringing light, n., the morning
   star, fr. lux, lucis, light + ferre to bring.]
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   1. The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; --
      applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon.
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            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.
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            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.
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   2. Hence, Satan.
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            How wretched
            Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors! . .
            .
            When he falls, he falls like Lucifer,
            Never to hope again.                  --Shak.
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   3. A match[1] made of a sliver of wood tipped with a
      combustible substance, and ignited by friction; -- called
      also lucifer match, and locofoco, now most commonly
      referred to as a friction match. See Locofoco.
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   4. (Zool.) A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea,
      having a slender body and long appendages.
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