Lucifer
the morning star. A name given to the planet Venus when she LUCIUS LUDENDORFF appears in the morning before sunrise. LUCULLUS, LUCIUS LICINIUS, a Also a name commonly, though inappropriately, given to the prince of darkness; Satan. Also a term originally applied to matches tipped with a mixture of chlorate of potash and sulphuret of antimony, which were inflamed by friction on a piece of emery paper. These have been superseded by a variety of mixtures containing phosphorus. In ornithology, a humming bird of Mexico and the S. W. of the United States. It has a forked tail and its throat feathers form a ruff.
LUCIUS II., Pope, succeeded Celestine II. in 1144, led out his troops to suppress a disturbance, and was killed by a paving-stone, in 1145.
Roman consul and commander, celebrated for his military talents and luxurious style of living; born about 115 B. C. He first distinguished himself in the Social War, and afterward defeated Hamilcar in two naval battles. In 74 B. c. he obtained the consulship and the command of the expedition against Mithridates.
In 71 B. c. he finally broke up the hostile army, and Mithridates himself sought protection in Armenia, where Tigranes refusing to surrender him to the Romans, Lucullus attacked that monarch, and completely subdued him. On an occasion of a mutiny of his soldiers, he was deprived of the chief command, and recalled. From this time, Lucullus remained a private individual, spending LUCIUS III., Pope (1181-1185). magnificent nt feasts, splendid gardens, was the first Pope elected solely by the cardinals, in consequence of which his reign was very turbulent. He died an exile in Verona in 1185.
LUCKNOW (luk'nou), a city of Hindustan, capital of the former kingdom of Oude, on the Gumti, a tributary of the Ganges, 150 miles N. W. of Benares, and 265 S. E. of Delhi. It is divided into three parts: The first is the city proper, containing the shops and private dwellings of the inhabitants, the streets very narrow and sunk below the level of the houses, and very filthy. The second is near the Gumti toward the S. E.
The third quarter adjoins the Gumti on the N. W. and consists chiefly of religious buildings, the styles of which are more purely Oriental. Lucknow is remarkable for the defense made by 300 British soldiers while besieged in the residency of the city for four months in 1857 during the Sepoy rebellion. Pop. about 260,000.