- Old Nick - Satan - The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; --
applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon. - Hence, Satan. - 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. - A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a
slender body and long appendages.
- A group of small insects having the anterior
wings rudimentary, and in the form of short and slender twisted
appendages, while the posterior ones are large and membranous. They are
parasitic in the larval state on bees, wasps, and the like; -- called
also Rhipiptera. See Illust. under Rhipipter.