| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Hugh Perry | Literature | 1: "To save your knuckles time and trouble, 2: (See Prometheans, Vesuvians.) 3: An English perversion of "Euperion," a predecessor of lucifer matches invented by Heurtner, who opened a shop in the Strand, and advertised his invention thus - 4: Use Heurter's Euperion." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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