How wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors! . . .
When he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.
Shak.
3. 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. (Zoöl.) A genus of free- swimming macruran Crustacea, having a
slender body and long appendages.
Lu`ci*fe"ri*an (?), a. 1. Of or pertaining to Lucifer; having the pride
of Lucifer; satanic; devilish.