Word Meanings - LIFE-SAVING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That saves life, or is suited to save life, esp. from drowning; as, the life-saving service; a life-saving station.

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• SAVELY
  Safely. Chaucer.
• SUITABILITY
  The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
• STATIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
• SUITRESS
  A female supplicant. Rowe.
• SUITING
  Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.
• SAVORINESS
  The quality of being savory.
• SAVACIOUN
  Salvation.
• SAVINGLY
  1. In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony. 2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death. Savingly born of water and the Spirit. Waterland.
• DROWN
  To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak. (more info) be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken,
• SAVOROUS
  Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R.
• STATIONARY
  1. Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed. Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story. Southey. 2. Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
• STATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a station.
• SAVELOY
  A kind of dried sausage. McElrath.
• SAVE-ALL
  Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss. Specifically: A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned. A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass
• SAVOY
  A variety of the common cabbage , having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use.
• STATIONER
  1. A bookseller or publisher; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere. Dryden. 2. One who sells paper, pens, quills, inkstands, pencils, blank books, and other articles used in writing.
• SERVICE
  The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subpoena or an attachment. (more info) 1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for
• STATION
  The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat. (more info) 1. The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture. A station like the herald, Mercury. Shak. Their manner was to stand at
• SAVAGISM
  The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness.
• SAVIORESS
  A female savior. Bp. Hall.
• MENOSTATION
  See MENOSTASIS
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• LABOR-SAVING
  Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
• TORPEDO STATION
  A headquarters for torpedo vessels and their supplies, usually having facilities for repairs and for instruction and experiments. The principal torpedo station of the United States is at Newport,
• DEMISUIT
  A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.
• MISAVIZE
  To misadvise.
• CESSAVIT
  A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
• INCRUSTATION
  A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement. (more info) 1. The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted. 2. A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• SEMISAVAGE
  Half savage.
• BOND SERVICE
  The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.