Word Meanings - SEANNACHIE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bard among the Highlanders of Scotland, who preserved and

PRESERVATIVE
Having the power or quality of preserving; tending to preserve, or to keep from injury, decay, etc.
PRESERVABLE
Capable of being preserved; admitting of preservation.
PRESERVER
1. One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another. Shak. 2. One who makes preserves of fruit. Game preserver. See under Game.
PRESERVATION
The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation. Give us particulars of thy
PRESERVATORY
Preservative. Bp. Hall.
PRESERVE
1. To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect. O Lord, thou preserved man and beast. Ps. xxxvi. 6. Now, good angels preserve the king. Shak. 2. To save from decay by the use of some
AMONG; AMONGST
among, AS. onmang, ongemang, gemang, in a crowd or mixture. For the 1. Mixed or mingled; surrounded by. They heard, And from his presence hid themselves among The thickest trees. Milton. 2. Conjoined, or associated with, or making part
SELF-PRESERVATION
The preservation of one's self from destruction or injury.
LIFE-PRESERVER
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.