Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LU'CI-FER, or LUCI-FER-MATCH
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.
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