Lucifer was a term once applied to matches tipped with a mixture of potassium chlorate and antimony sulphide, inflamed by friction on a piece of emery paper. These were superseded by a variety of mixtures containing phosphorus. This is still the Dutch (and British slang) name for matches.
Lucifer is a comic book character in an ongoing series published by DC Comics' Vertigo line.
Lucifer is the religious and cultural term for nuclear war or weaponry used in the post-Apocalyptic society depicted in A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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A marriage or an arrangement of marriage: a royal match.
To resemble or harmonize with: The coat matches the dress.
a match might afford her a world of comfort, if she only dared take a single one out of the bundle, draw it against the wall, and warm her fingers by it.
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