Part 6518

<i>Poe.</i>

<h1>Lifelong</h1> <Xpage=850>

<hw>Life"long</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Life</ets> + <ets>long</ets>. Cf. <er>Livelong</er>.]</ety> <def>Lasting or continuing through life.</def>

<i>Tennyson.</i>

<h1>Lifely</h1> <Xpage=850>

<hw>Life"ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Lively</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <def>In a lifelike manner.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Lifemate</h1> <Xpage=850>

<hw>Life"mate`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Companion for life.</def>

<i>Hawthorne.</i>

<h1>Lifen</h1> <Xpage=850>

<hw>Lif"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To enliven.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Marston.</i>

<h1>Life-preserver</h1> <Xpage=850>

<hw>Life"-pre*serv`er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>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.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Life"-pre*serv`ing</wf>, <tt>a.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Life-saving</h1> <Xpage=850>

<hw>Life"-sav`ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That saves life, or is suited to save life, esp. from drowning; <as>as, the <ex>life-saving</ex> service; a <ex>life-saving</ex> station.</as></def>

<h1>Life-size</h1> <Xpage=850>

<hw>Life"-size`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of full size; of the natural size.</def>

<h1>Lifesome</h1> <Xpage=850>

<hw>Life"some</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Animated; sprightly.</def> <mark>[Poetic]</mark> <i>Coleridge</i>. -- <wordforms><wf>Life"some*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Lifespring</h1> <Xpage=850>

<hw>Life"spring`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Spring or source of life.</def>

<h1>Lifestring</h1> <Xpage=850>

<hw>Life"string"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A nerve, or string, that is imagined to be essential to life.</def>

<i>Daniel.</i>

<h1>Lifetime</h1> <Xpage=850>

<hw>Life"time`</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The time that life continues</def>.