An air-tight apparatus made of India rubber cloth for preserving the lives of persons in case of shipwreck.
·noun An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various materials, for saving one from drowni...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
An air-tight apparatus for saving people in cases of wreck. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun One who makes preserves of fruit. II. Preserver ·noun One who, or that which, preserves, save...
·noun Animation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy. II. Life ·noun An essential constituent of life, ...
Generally of physical life (Gen. 2:7; Luke 16:25, etc.); also used figuratively (1) for immortality ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
·adj Giving life or spirit; having power to give life; inspiriting; invigorating. ...
·adj That saves life, or is suited to save life, ·esp. from drowning; as, the life-saving service; a...
·adj Of full size; of the natural size. ...
·adj Weary of living. ...
·noun Life for one's self; living solely or chiefly for one's own pleasure or good. ...
This expression occurs in the Old Testament only in Dan. 12:2 (R.V., "everlasting life"). It occurs...
An india-rubber or cork girdle round a person's waist to buoy him up in the water. ...
One of such peculiar construction that it cannot sink or be swamped. It is equipped for attending wh...
Are of various descriptions. A very useful one, patented by Cook, is supplied to all Her Majesty's s...
A greatly-privileged body of cavalry, specially assigned to the guarding of the sovereign's person. ...
A contrivance for saving the lives of shipwrecked persons by forming a communication between the wre...
Stretched from gun to gun, and about the upper deck in bad weather, to prevent the men being washed ...
Stood also in the midst of the garden of Eden (Gen. 2:9; 3:22). Some writers have advanced the opini...
A married man; i.e. possessed of a woman for life. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Departed this life. ...
On the east side of Old Jewry at No.19 (P.O. Directory). In Coleman Street Ward. First mention: O.S...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.