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Phosphor

[fos-fer, -fawr] / ˈfɒs fər, -fɔr /
NOUN
morning star
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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

Like Phosphor, in the sullen rear of night, Before the golden wheels of orient light He came.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

Hesper and Phosphor are simply the one planet Venus, which according to its position with the sun, becomes the morning or evening star.

From A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' by Gatty, Alfred, Mrs.

Phosphorus is a constituent of the human brain, and a trenchant German writer has exclaimed, "Ohne Phosphor kein Gedanke!"

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

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




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