vulcan

Speech parts

1. vulcan - Noun

2. Vulcan - Proper noun

Meaning

The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; -- answering to the Greek Hephaestus.

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Examples

I've been to Vulcan where I've been vulcanized, Carbon where you get carbonated and Standard where you get standardized. Ernie Isley's invited me to Castor ... and I'm not looking forward to it. Ralph Klein

That Vulcan gave arrows unto Apollo and Diana the fourth day after their Nativities, according to Gentile Theology, may pass for no blind apprehension of the Creation of the Sun and Moon, in the work of the fourth day. Thomas Browne

What chance has Vulcan against Roberts & Co., Jupiter against the lightning-rod and Hermes against the Credit Mobilier? All mythology overcomes and dominates and shapes the forces of nature in the imagination and by the imagination; it therefore vanishes with the advent of real mastery over them. Karl Marx

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan. Paracelsus

Behold on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong! Dwells there a god on all the Olympian brow More swift than Mars, and more than Vulcan slow? Yet Vulcan conquers, and the god of arms Must pay the penalty for lawless charms. Homer

Beware of the vulcan greed for knowledge. Klingon Proverb

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