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Fresh; brisk; full of life. [Colloq.]

Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life.

That which bribes; a bribe. His service . . . were a sufficient briber for his life. Shak.

Short in duration. How brief the life of man. Shak.

Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder.

des or an opinion. -- To bring to. (a) To resuscitate; to bring back to consciousness or life, as a fainting person. (b) (Naut.) To check the course of, as of a ship, by dropping the anchor, or by counterbracing the sails so as to keep her nearly stationary (she is then said to lie to). (c) To cause (a vessel) to lie…

Full of spirit of life; effervescas, brick cider.

Crushed and ruined as by something that destroys hope; blighted. "Her broken love and life." G. Eliot.

the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation.

instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life. I. Taylor.

Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.

eatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470,000,000.

Can buoy, a hollow buoy made of sheet or boiler iron, usually conical or pear-shaped. -- Life buoy, a float intended to support persons who have fallen into the water, until a boat can be dispatched to save them. -- Nut or Nun buoy, a buoy large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end. -- To stream…

or a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure. Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business Luke ii. 49.

one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle. "Butcher of an innocent child." Shak. Butcher bird (Zoöl.), a species of shrike of the genus Lanius.

composite genus Liatris, having rounded buttonlike heads of flowers. (b) An American umbelliferous plant with rigid, narrow leaves, and flowers in dense heads. -- Button tree (Bot.), a genus of trees (Conocarpus), furnishing durable timber, mostly natives of the West Indies. -- To hold by the button, to detain in con…

pers, or secretly. I will buzz abroad such prophecies That Edward shall be fearful of his life. Shak.

h temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life.

An orderly arrangement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac.

A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat nesessary to life, that is, the animal heat.