Both Uses of
Vulcan
in
Jane Eyre
- Your eyes dwell on a Vulcan, — a real blacksmith, brown, broad-shouldered: and blind and lame into the bargain.†
p. 509.4 *
- I never thought of it, before; but you certainly are rather like Vulcan, sir.†
p. 509.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(Vulcan as in: the Olympian god) Roman mythology: god of fire and metal working
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In the popular Star Trek stories, Vulcan was also the name of a species and planet.