life-preserver

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• Life-preserver

  ·noun An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various materials, for saving one from drowni...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• life preserver

  An air-tight apparatus made of India rubber cloth for preserving the lives of persons in case of shi...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Preserver

  ·noun One who makes preserves of fruit. II. Preserver ·noun One who, or that which, preserves, save...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Life

  ·noun Animation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy. II. Life ·noun An essential constituent of life, ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Life

  Generally of physical life (Gen. 2:7; Luke 16:25, etc.); also used figuratively (1) for immortality ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Life-giving

  ·adj Giving life or spirit; having power to give life; inspiriting; invigorating. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Life-saving

  ·adj That saves life, or is suited to save life, ·esp. from drowning; as, the life-saving service; a...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Life-size

  ·adj Of full size; of the natural size. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Life-weary

  ·adj Weary of living. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Self-life

  ·noun Life for one's self; living solely or chiefly for one's own pleasure or good. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Eternal life

  This expression occurs in the Old Testament only in Dan. 12:2 (R.V., "everlasting life"). It occurs...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• life-belt

  An india-rubber or cork girdle round a person's waist to buoy him up in the water. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• life-boat

  One of such peculiar construction that it cannot sink or be swamped. It is equipped for attending wh...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• life-buoys

  Are of various descriptions. A very useful one, patented by Cook, is supplied to all Her Majesty's s...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• life-guards

  A greatly-privileged body of cavalry, specially assigned to the guarding of the sovereign's person. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• life-kite

  A contrivance for saving the lives of shipwrecked persons by forming a communication between the wre...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• life-lines

  Stretched from gun to gun, and about the upper deck in bad weather, to prevent the men being washed ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Tree of life

  Stood also in the midst of the garden of Eden (Gen. 2:9; 3:22). Some writers have advanced the opini...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• tenant for life

  A married man; i.e. possessed of a woman for life. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• unrove his life-line

  Departed this life. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• National Debt and Government Life Annuity Office

  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.