English Dictionary: leave off | by the DICT Development Group |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Labefy \Lab"e*fy\, v. t. [L. labefacere; labare to totter + facere to make.] To weaken or impair. [R.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Life buoy}. See {Buoy}. {Life car}, a water-tight boat or box, traveling on a line from a wrecked vessel to the shore. In it persons are hauled through the waves and surf. {Life drop}, a drop of vital blood. --Byron. {Life estate} (Law), an estate which is held during the term of some certain person's life, but does not pass by inheritance. {Life everlasting} (Bot.), a plant with white or yellow persistent scales about the heads of the flowers, as {Antennaria}, and {Gnaphalium}; cudweed. {Life of an execution} (Law), the period when an execution is in force, or before it expires. {Life guard}. (Mil.) See under {Guard}. {Life insurance}, the act or system of insuring against death; a contract by which the insurer undertakes, in consideration of the payment of a premium (usually at stated periods), to pay a stipulated sum in the event of the death of the insured or of a third person in whose life the insured has an interest. {Life interest}, an estate or interest which lasts during one's life, or the life of another person, but does not pass by inheritance. {Life land} (Law), land held by lease for the term of a life or lives. {Life line}. (a) (Naut.) A line along any part of a vessel for the security of sailors. (b) A line attached to a life boat, or to any life saving apparatus, to be grasped by a person in the water. {Life rate}, the rate of premium for insuring a life. {Life rent}, the rent of a life estate; rent or property to which one is entitled during one's life. {Life school}, a school for artists in which they model, paint, or draw from living models. {Life table}, a table showing the probability of life at different ages. {To lose one's life}, to die. {To seek the life of}, to seek to kill. {To the life}, so as closely to resemble the living person or the subject; as, the portrait was drawn to the life. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Buoy \Buoy\, n. [D. boei buoy, fetter, fr. OF. boie, buie, chain, fetter, F. bou[82]e a buoy, from L. boia. [bd]Boiae genus vinculorum tam ferreae quam ligneae.[b8] --Festus. So called because chained to its place.] (Naut.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc. {Anchor buoy}, a buoy attached to, or marking the position of, an anchor. {Bell buoy}, a large buoy on which a bell is mounted, to be rung by the motion of the waves. {Breeches buoy}. See under {Breeches}. {Cable buoy}, an empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rocky anchorage. {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 the buoy}, to let the anchor buoy fall by the ship's side into the water, before letting go the anchor. {Whistling buoy}, a buoy fitted with a whistle that is blown by the action of the waves. |