Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A nerve or string in the body imagined to be essential to life; hence, in the plural, the essential supports of life.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A nerve, or string, that is imagined to be essential to life.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
nerve , orstring , supposed to beessential tolife .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
life + string
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