Money [is] 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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2. To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation,
character, etc.; -- often with up.
The Roman virtues lift up mortal man.
Addison.
Lest, being lifted up with pride.