lifeguard

Cowper: Olney Hymns, liii. 1. Ord. Lang.: The guard of a sovereign's person; a king's body-guard. In the British army the name of Life-guards is given to two cavalry regiments of the Household Brigade. In this sense life really body; cf. Dut. lijf = body, lijf - garde -life-guard; Sw.lif =body; Ger. leib . 2. Locomotive-eng in.: A safeguard, rail-guard, sweeper. The device embracing the brooms fixed in front of a locomotive for clearing small obstructions from the track. ( Eng .) IMG:content-0544.png:[blocks in formation] 1. A line stretched above a yard to enable seamen to stand thereon in manning yards. 2. A line stretched from object to object on deck, for the men to grasp in bad weather and heavy sea. 3. A line attached at one end to a life-buoy and floating loosely, to a ist a person in grasping it. throughout life. life-long, live-long, a . Lasting or continuing Live - long is frequently used colloquially in the sense of the whole, complete, full, with a notion of tediousne or wearine . "Hadst thou not told me, I should surely say, He toucht no meat of all this live - long day." Bp. Hall : Satires , iii. 7. life-mortar, s. A mortar for throwing a rocket. with a line attached from the shore to a ship in distre . life-office, s. An office or a ociation where life insurances can be effected. life-peer, s. A peer for life only.