Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LU'CID-NESS, n.

Brightness; clearness.

LU'CI-FER, n. [L. lux, lucis, light, and fero, to bring.]

1. The planet Venus, so called from its brightness.
2. Satan. And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, / Never to hope again. – Shak.

LU'CI-FER, or LUCI-FER-MATCH, n.

A match made with a very combustible substance; being tipped with a mixture of chlorate of potash and sulphuret of antimony, and ignited by friction.

LU-CI-FE'RI-AN, a.

Pertaining to Lucifer, or to the Luciferians.

LU-CI-FE'RI-ANS, n.

A sect that followed Lucifer, bishop of Cagliari, in the fourth century. They held to the carnal nature of the soul, and that there is no place for repentance for such as fall.

LU'CI-FER-MATCH, n.

A match made with phosphorus.

LU-CIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. lucifer, supra.]

Giving light; affording light or means of discovery. – Boyle.

LU-CIF'IC, a. [L. lux, light, and facio, to make.]

Producing light. – Grew.

LU'CI-FORM, a. [L. lux, light, and forma, ford.]

Having the form of light; resembling light. The water prepares us, and purifies our luciform spirit to receive the divinity. – Paus. Trans.

LUCK, n. [D. luk, geluk; G. glück; Sw. lycka; Dan. lykke; Sans. lakki. The sense is that which comes, falls, happens. W. lluç, a dart or throw; lluçiaw, to throw. Qu. Gr. λαγχανω; Ar. لَقَا laka. Class Lg, No. 21.]

That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, a feeling a man's interest or happiness, and which is deemed casual; fortune. Luck respects persons and their proceedings. We never say, in a literal sense, that a plant has the luck to grow in a particular place; or a fossil has the luck to be of a particular form. We say, a person has the good luck to escape from danger; or the ill luck to be insnared or to suffer loss. He has had good luck, or bad luck in gaming, fishing or hunting. Luck, or what we call chance, accident, fortune, is an event which takes place without being intended or foreseen; or from some cause not under human control; that which can not be previously known or determined with certainty by human skill or power. Consider the gift of luck as below the care of a wise man. – Rambler.

LUCK'I-LY, adv. [from lucky.]

Fortunately; by good fortune; with a favorable issue; in a good sense. Luckily, we escaped injury.

LUCK'I-NESS, n.

1. The state of being fortunate; as, the luckiness of a man or of an event.
2. Good fortune; a favorable issue or event. [In this sense, luck is generally used.]

LUCK'LESS, n.

1. Unfortunate; meeting with ill success; as, a luckless gamester; a luckless maid.
2. Unfortunate; producing ill or no good. Prayers made and granted in a luckless hour. Dryden.

LUCK'LESS-LY, adv.

Unfortunately; unsuccessfully.

LUCKY, a.

1. Fortunate; meeting with good success; as, a lucky adventurer.
2. Fortunate; producing good by chance; favorable; as, a lucky adventure; a lucky time; a lucky cast.

LU'CRA-TIVE, a. [Fr. lucratif; L. lucrativus, from lucror, to gain profit.]

Gainful; profitable; making increase of money or goods; as, a lucrative trade; lucrative business or office.

LU'CRA-TIVE-LY, adv.

Profitably.

LU'CRE, n. [lu'ker; L. lucrum; Fr. lucre.]

Gain in money or goods; profit; usually in an ill sense, or with the sense of something base or unworthy. The lust of lucre, and the dread of death. – Pope. A bishop must be blameless … not given to filthy lucre. – Tit. i.

LU-CRIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. lucrum, gain, and fero, to produce.]

Gainful; profitable. [Little used.] – Boyle.

LU-CRIF'IC, a. [L. lucrum, gain, and facio, to make.]

Producing profit; gainful. [Not used.]

LUC-TA'TION, n. [L. luctatio, from luctor, to wrestle or strive.]

Struggle; contest; effort to overcome in contest. [Little used.]

LUC'TU-AL, a. [L. luctus, grief.]

Producing grief. [Not used.] – Buck.

LU'CU-BRATE, v.i. [L. lucubro, to study by candle-light, from lucubrum; from lux, light.]

To study by candle-light or a lamp; to study by night.

LU-CU-BRA'TION, n.

1. Study by a lamp or by candle-light; nocturnal study.
2. That which is composed by night; that which is produced by meditation in retirement. – Tatler.

LU'CU-BRA-TO-RY, a.

Composed by candle-light or by night. – Pope.