lifestring

English

Etymology

life +‎ string

Noun

lifestring (plural lifestrings)

  1. (archaic) A nerve, or string, supposed to be essential to life.
    • 1599, Samuel Daniel, Musophilus
      these Lines are the Veins, the Arteries,
      And undecaying Life-strings of those Hearts

References

lifestring in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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