Part 684

That which before us lies in daily life.

Milton.

By experience of life abroad in the world.

Ascham.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime.

Longfellow.

'T is from high life high characters are drawn.

Pope

6. Animation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy.

No notion of life and fire in fancy and in words.

Felton.

That gives thy gestures grace and life.

Wordsworth.

7. That which imparts or excites spirit or vigor; that upon which enjoyment or success depends; as, he was the life of the company, or of the enterprise.

8. The living or actual form, person, thing, or state; as, a picture or a description from the life.

9. A person; a living being, usually a human being; as, many lives were sacrificed.

10. The system of animal nature; animals in general, or considered collectively.

Full nature swarms with life.

Thomson.

11. An essential constituent of life, esp. the blood.

The words that I speak unto you . . . they are life.

John vi. 63.

The warm life came issuing through the wound.

Pope

12. A history of the acts and events of a life; a biography; as, Johnson wrote the life of Milton.

13. Enjoyment in the right use of the powers; especially, a spiritual existence; happiness in the favor of God; heavenly felicity.

14. Something dear to one as one's existence; a darling; -- used as a term of endearment.

Life forms the first part of many compounds, for the most part of obvious meaning; as, life-giving, life- sustaining, etc.