Part 685

Life annuity, an annuity payable during one's life. -- Life arrow, Life rocket, Life shot, an arrow, rocket, or shot, for carrying an attached line to a vessel in distress in order to save life. -- Life assurance. See Life insurance, below. -- Life buoy. See Buoy. -- Life car, a water- tight boat or box, traveling on a line from a wrecked vessel to the shore. In it persons are hauled through the waves and surf. -- Life drop, a drop of vital blood. Byron. -- Life estate (Law), an estate which is held during the term of some certain person's life, but does not pass by inheritance. -- Life everlasting (Bot.), a plant with white or yellow persistent scales about the heads of the flowers, as Antennaria, and Gnaphalium; cudweed. -- Life of an execution (Law), the period when an execution is in force, or before it expires. -- Life guard. (Mil.) See under Guard. -- Life insurance, the act or system of insuring against death; a contract by which the insurer undertakes, in consideration of the payment of a premium (usually at stated periods), to pay a stipulated sum in the event of the death of the insured or of a third person in whose life the insured has an interest. -- Life interest, an estate or interest which lasts during one's life, or the life of another person, but does not pass by inheritance. -- Life land (Law), land held by lease for the term of a life or lives. -- Life line. (a) (Naut.) A line along any part of a vessel for the security of sailors. (b) A line attached to a life boat, or to any life saving apparatus, to be grasped by a person in the water. -- Life rate, the rate of premium for insuring a life. -- Life rent, the rent of a life estate; rent or property to which one is entitled during one's life. -- Life school, a school for artists in which they model, paint, or draw from living models. -- Life table, a table showing the probability of life at different ages. -- To lose one's life, to die. -- To seek the life of, to seek to kill. -- To the life, so as closely to resemble the living person or the subject; as, the portrait was drawn to the life.

Life"blood` (lf"bld`), n. 1. The blood necessary to life; vital blood. Dryden.

2. Fig.: That which gives strength and energy.

Money the lifeblood of the nation.

Swift.

Life"boat` (-bt`), n. A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people.

Life"ful (-fl), a. Full of vitality. Spenser.

Life"-giv`ing (-gv`ng), a. Giving life or spirit; having power to give life; inspiriting; invigorating.

Life"hold` (-hld`), n. Land held by a life estate.

Life"less, a. Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless story. -- Life"less*ly, adv. -- Life"less*ness, n.

Syn. -- Dead; soulless; inanimate; torpid; inert; inactive; dull; heavy; unanimated; spiritless; frigid; pointless; vapid; flat; tasteless. -- Lifeless, Dull, Inanimate, Dead. In a moral sense, lifeless denotes a want of vital energy; inanimate, a want of expression as to any feeling that may be possessed; dull implies a torpor of soul which checks all mental activity; dead supposes a destitution of feeling. A person is said to be lifeless who has lost the spirits which he once had; he is said to be inanimate when he is naturally wanting in spirits; one is dull from an original deficiency of mental power; he who is dead to moral sentiment is wholly bereft of the highest attribute of his nature.

Life"like` (lf"lk`), a. [Cf. Lively.] Like a living being; resembling life; giving an accurate representation; as, a lifelike portrait. -- Life"like`ness, n. Poe.

Life"long` (-lng`), a. [Life + long. Cf. Livelong.] Lasting or continuing through life. Tennyson.

Life"ly, adv. [Cf. Lively, a.] In a lifelike manner. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Life"mate` (-mt`), n. Companion for life. Hawthorne.

Lif"en (lf"'n), v. t. To enliven. [Obs.] Marston.

Life"-pre*serv`er (lf"pr*zrv`r), n. An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various materials, for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body while in the water. -- Life"-pre*serv`ing, a.

Life"-sav`ing (-sv`ng), a. That saves life, or is suited to save life, esp. from drowning; as, the life-saving service; a life- saving station.

Life"-size` (-sz`), a. Of full size; of the natural size.

Life"some (-sm), a. Animated; sprightly. [Poetic] Coleridge. -- Life"some*ness, n.

Life"spring` (-sprng`), n. Spring or source of life.

Life"string` (-strng`), n. A nerve, or string, that is imagined to be essential to life. Daniel.

Life"time` (-tm`), n. The time that life continues.

Life"-wea`ry (-w`r), a. Weary of living. Shak.

Lif"lode (lf"ld), n. Livelihood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Lift (lft), n. [AS. lyft air. See Loft.] The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament. [Obs. or Scot.]

Lift (lft), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Lifting.] [Icel. lypta, fr. lopt air; akin to Sw. lyfta to lift, Dan. löfte, G. lüften; -- prop., to raise into the air. See Loft, and cf. 1st Lift.] 1. To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; -- said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden.

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