lucidness

[Eng. lucid; -ne .] The quality or state of being lucid; lucidity, intelligibility. "The smoothne and lucidne of gla , ."-Mountagu: Devout E ays , pt. i., tr. 20, § 1. lû-çi-fer, s . [Lat., as adj. light-bringing, as subst., lucifer = light-bringer, from lux (gen it. lucis )=light, and fero =to bring.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. In the same sense as II. 1, 3. 2. A lucifer match (q. v.). II. Technically: 1. Astron.: An ancient name for Venus, when the Morning Star, as distinguished from Hesperus, when it is the evening one. 2. Script .: A name symbolically applied to Nebuchadnezzar. "How art thou fallen from Heaven, O Lucifer , son of the morning." -Isaiah xiv. 12. 3. Poet. & Hist .: A name for Satan. It arose because Tertullian, Gregory the Great, and others, misinterpreted the pa age in Isaiah of Satan. (Cf. Isa. xiv. 12 with Luke x. 18; Rev. xii. 9, xx. 2.) "When he falls, he falls like Lucifer , Never to hope again." Shakesp.: Henry VIII., iii. 2. 4. Ornith A genus of Trochi lidæ, established by Le on.