lifestring

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  1. A nerve or string in the body imagined to be essential to life; hence, in the plural, the essential supports of life. Breaking thy veines and thy life-stringes w like pain & grief. Sir T. More, Works, p. 77. These lines are the veins, the arteries, The undecaying lifestrings of those hearts. Daniel.

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