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One who serves.

One who conserves.

One who deserves.

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.

One who misobserves; one who fails to observe properly.

e engaged in, or trained to habits of, close and exact observation; as, an astronomical observer. The observed of all observers. Shak. Careful observers may foretell the hour, By sure prognostic, when to dread a shower. Swift.

The office or work of an observer.

One who makes preserves of fruit. Game preserver. See under Game.

One who reserves.

One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense.

One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or worthy. [Obs.] Shak.

eavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and dairy or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the lat…

ions; penetrating; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to Ant: dull or Ant: stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.

An auscultatory process, which consists in noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest. Dunglison.

avenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed.

ne of the triad of Hindoo gods. The triad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer.

ate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict; not wandering; as, a close observer.

One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver. The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new life. Jer. Taylor.

One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver. The great Creator and Conservator of the world. Derham.

One who delivers or rescues; a preserver.