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Webster 1913 Edition

(fŏs′fôr or fŏs′fŏr)

Noun.

[Cf. G.

phosphor

. See

Phosphorus.

[Obs.]

Addison.

The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; Lucifer.

[Poetic and Rare]

Pope.

Tennyson.

Noun.

[Gr. light, to shine, and to bring. See Phosphorus.]

The morning star or Lucifer; Venus, when it precedes the sun and shines in the morning. In this sense, it is also written Phosphorus.