Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LIFE'-BLOOD, a.

Necessary as blood to life; essential.

LIFE'-BLOOD, n.

1. The blood necessary to life; vital blood. Dryden.
2. That which constitutes or gives strength and energy. Money, the life-blood of the nation. Swift.

LIFE'-BOAT, n.

A boat constructed for preserving lives in cases of shipwreck or other destruction of a ship or steamer.

LIFE-CON-SUM'ING, a.

Wasting life.

LIFE-DE-VO'TED-NESS, n.

The devotedness of life. Carisle.

LIFE'-END-ING, a.

Putting an end to life.

LIFE-ES-TATE', n.

An estate that continues during the life of the possessor.

LIFE-EV-ER-LAST'ING, n.

A plant of the genus Gnaphalium.

LIFE'-GIV-ING, a.

Having power to give life; inspiriting; invigorating. Spenser. Milton.

LIFE'-GIV-ING, a.

Giving life or spirit.

LIFE'-GUARD, n.

A guard of the life or person; a guard that attends the person of a prince, or other person.

LIFE'LESS, a.

1. Dead; deprived of life; as, a lifeless body.
2. Destitute of life; unanimated; as, lifeless matter.
3. Destitute of power, force, rigor, or spirit; dull; heavy; inactive.
4. Void of spirit; vapid; as liquor.
5. Torpid.
6. Wanting physical energy.

LIFE'LESS-LY, adv.

Without vigor; dully; heavily; frigidly.

LIFE'LESS-NESS, n.

Destitution of life, vigor and spirit; inactivity.

LIFE'-LIKE, a.

Like a living person. Pope.

LIFE-LONG, n.

Duration of life.

LIFE-MAIN-TAIN'ING, or LIFE-SUS-TAIN'ING, a.

Supporting life.

LIFE'-PRE-SERV-ER, n.

An apparatus for preserving lives of persons in cases of shipwreck, or other destruction of a ship or steamer.

LIFE'-RENT, n.

The rent of an estate that continues for life.

LIFE'-SPRING, n.

The spring or source of life. Everett.

LIFE'-STRING, n.

A nerve or string that is imagined to be essential to life.

LIFE'-TIME, n.

The time that life continues; duration of life. Addison.

LIFE-WEAR'Y, a.

Tired of life; weary of living. Shak.

LIFT, n.

1. The act of raising; a lifting; as, the lift of the feet in walking or running. Bacon. The goat gives the fox a life. L'Estrange.
2. An effort to raise; as, give us a lift. [Popular use.]
3. That which is to be raised.
4. A dead lift, an ineffectual effort to raise; or the thing which the strength is not sufficient to raise.
5. Any thing to be done which exceeds the strength; or a state of inability; as, to help one at a dead lift. Butler. Swift.,
6. A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals. Gallatin.
7. In Scottish, the sky; the atmosphere; the firmament. [Sax. luft, air, Sw. luft.]
8. In seamen's language, a rope descending from the cap and mast-head to the extremity of a yard. Its use is to support the yard, keep it in equilibrio, and raise the end, when occasion requires. Mar. Dict.

LIFT, v.i.

1. To try to raise; to exert the strength for the purpose of raising or bearing. The body strained by lifting at a weight too heavy. Locke.
2. To practice theft. [Obs.] Spenser.