Phosphor

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Furthermore, one of the mobile developers in the Partners programme, Phosphor Games, is creating an action fantasy title named Horn, clearly aimed at the dedicated gaming audience.

From The Guardian • Aug. 2, 2012

The ancients called it Lucifer and Phosphor when it shone as a morning star before sunrise, and Hesperus and Vesper when it became visible after sunset.

From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel

However, it is conceded in the family that Phosphor is not a cat merely: he is a person, and Lucifer is a spirit.

From Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others by Winslow, Helen M.

So, when thick vapors veil the nightly sky, The starry host in half-seen lustre fly, Till Phosphor rises o'er the twinkling crowd, And gives new splendor thro his parting cloud.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel

Phosphor, the light-bringer or morning star; also called Hespĕrus, and by Homer and Hesiod Heôs-phŏros.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham