friction match
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (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”Synonyms: matchluciferfriction match
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Lucifer \Lu"ci*fer\, n. [L., bringing light, n., the morning star, fr. lux, lucis, light + ferre to bring.] [1913 Webster]
1.The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon. [1913 Webster]
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.[1913 Webster]
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.[1913 Webster]
2.Hence, Satan. [1913 Webster]
How wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors! . . . When he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
4.(Zool.) A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages. [1913 Webster]