lieutenant-general

(li-ten’ant-jen’e-ral),n. 1. Ly) Oh life, not death, for which we pant, A military officer ranking in the United States More life, and fuller, that I want. and British armies next below a general. In the Tennyson, Two Voices. aie) life 4, Duration of existence or activity in general; term of continuance, usefulne , or efficiency; the time during which anything lasts, or has force or validity: as, the life of a machine; the life of a lease; the enterprise had a short life. In turning or planing steel the life of the tools used upon it is greatly increased if it has been thoroughly annealed. C. P. B. Shelley, Workshop Appliances, p. 324. _In London, [electrical] lamps can now be obtained whose Uife is guaranteed for a you sand hours. Science, IV. 391. The life of a rope appears to be about a year and a half. Rankine, Steam Engine, App., p. 569. 5. The state or condition of being alive; individual manifestation of existence: as, to save or lose one’s life. And yf they do any trespace wherof may fall peryll of lyf and lym [ete.]. Charter of London (Rich. II.), Arnold’s Chron., p. 15. I beg mortality, Rather than Jie preserved with infamy. Shak., 1 Hen. VI, iv. 5. 33. 6. Embodied vitality; vital force in material forms; living beings in the aggregate: as, a high or a low type of life; the absence of life in the desert. Full nature swarms with life. Thomson, Spring, 1. 187. From the life that fills the flood To that which warbles through the vernal wood. Pope, E ay on Man, i, 215. The noise of life begins again. Tennyson, In Memoriam, xii. 7. A corporeal existence; a living being; one who or that which has life; a person: now used only with reference to persons as lost or saved, but formerly of a person generally: as, many lives were lost. How louynge he is to eche 7yf a londe and a watere. Piers Plowman (C), xvi. 19. An awful thought, a life removed, The human-hearted man I loved. Tennyson, In Memoriam, xiii. 8. Source or means of living; that which makes or keeps alive; vivifying principle; an e ential vital element, as food or the blood. Why, there you touch’d the life of our design. Shak., T. and C., ii, 2. 194. Genial Day, What balm, what Zife is in thy ray! Moore, Lalla Rookh, The Fire-worshippers. The warm /ife came i uing through the wound. Pope, Tiad, iv. 609. The Lord of all, himself through all diff us’d, Sustains, and is the dife of all that lives. Cowper, Task, vi. 222. 9. A vital part of the body; a life-spot or vulnerable point. The boat approached near enough to “set” the hand lance into her life, dispatching the animal [a whale] at a single dart. C. M. Scammon, Marine Mammals, p. 25. 10. Condition, quality, manner, or course of living; career: as, high or low, married or single life; to lead a gay life; to amend one’s life; the daily life of a community. Whan they were alle come, the i ledde alle symple if and honeste. Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), i. 97. They litle diffred for their maner of Ujfe from the very brute beasts of the field. Putten ham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 4. He hath a daily beauty in his life That makes meugly. Shak., Othello, v. 1.19. It is like they might have lived here happily enough, had their inclinations led them to a quiet Life. Dampier, Voyages, II. i. 107. 11. In theol., that kind of spiritual existence which belongs to God, is manifested in Christ, and is imparted through faith to the believer; hence, a course of existence devoted to the service of God, po e ed of the felicity of his fellowship, and to be consummated after death. IT am the resurrection and the life. John xi. 25. To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Rom. viii. 6. The soul flows into the human mind, and conveys with it the life which it receives, without interruption, from the Lord. Swedenborg, Christian Psychology (tr. by Gorman), p. 70. 12. An account of a person’s career and actions; a personal history; a biography: as, Plutarch’s Lives; Johnson’s Lives of the Poets. Plutarch, that writes his life, Tells us that Cato dearly loved his wife. Pope, Epilogue to Rowe’s ‘‘ Jane Shore.” 13. Vivid show of animate existence; animation; spirit; vivacity; energy in action, thought, or expre ion: as, to put life into one’s work. Rem neg lig enter agit. He goes carele ly about the matter, He puts no life into the matter. He doth it as though he cared not whether he did it or no. Terence in English (1614), (Nares.) They have no notion of life and fire in fancy and in words, Felton. 784 life 3442 Eyes of intense life looking out from a weary, beaten Sick now! droop now! this sickne doth infect face. George Eliot, Mill on the Flo , vii. 5. The very life-blood of our enterprise. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iv. 1. 29. 14, An animating force or influence; anything that quickens or enlivens; a source of vital Begone, sweet life-blood; if I should discern Thyself but touched for my sake, I should die. energy, happine , or enjoyment; hence, that B. Jonson, Poetaster, iv. 6. which is dear as life (in this sense often used 3. In pathol., the more or le constant spas as an epithet of endearment): as, he was the modic quivering of the eyelid or lip: also called life of the company; his books were his life. life’s-blood, live-blood, and cillo. That is the only place of Trade in the Country, and Trade That curious muscular sensation or quiver, to which the is the Life of a Chinese, Dampier, Voyages, IT. i. 15. vulgar give the name of live blood. And Deborah, my life, grief, you know, is dry; let us have B. W. Richardson, Diseases of Modern Life, p. 163. a bottle of the best gooseberry-wine. II. a. Nece ary as blood to life; e ential. Goldsmith, Vicar, xvii. [Rare.] 15. The living form and expre ion; hence, reality in appearance or representation; living These devout prelates set at nought and trample under foot all the most sacred and life-blood Laws, Stat semblance; actual likene : as, to draw from utes, and Acts of Parliament. the life; he looks the character to the life. Milton, Reformation in Eng,, ii. There was never counterfeit of pa ion came so near the life-boat (lif’bot), m. A boat constructed for life of pa ion, Shak., Much Ado, ii. 3, 110. the special purpose of saving life at sea in I would your lordship did but see how well stormy weather, especially in case of shipwreck. This fury doth become you! it doth shew Life-boats are sharp at both ends, and those carried by So near the life as it were natural. ships are light and strong, and of great buoyancy, obtained Beau. and Fl., Woman-Hater, ii. 1. either by air-chambers of metal or by cork cylinders un- The Ecce Homo, shut up in a frame of velvet, for the life der the thwarts. On the coasts of the United States and and accurate finishing exceeding all description. Great Britain and of some other countries, life-boats are Evelyn, Diary, March 1, 1644. stationed at intervals along the shore, to a ist shipwrecked seamen. These boats vary in construction, ac- 16. An insurance on a person’s life; a life-in cording to the nature of the coast. On the sandy sea-coast surance policy. of the United States a light surf-boat is used, while on the shores of the British Isles and on the great American lakes He renewed two lives which had dropped. a much heavier boat is in common use. Mrs. Henry Wood, The Channings, I. 243.