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preserver|prɪˈzɜːvə(r)|
[f. preserve v. + -er1.]
1. A person who preserves.
a. One who keeps safe from destruction or injury; a saviour.
1535Coverdale Job vii. 20, I haue offended, what shal I do vnto y⊇, O thou preseruer off men? 1611Shakes. Cymb. v. v. 2 You, whom the Gods haue made Preseruers of my Throne. 1631Gouge God's Arrows iii. §65. 304 The Church..is a faithful keeper and preserver of the Oracles of God. 1662Bk. Com. Prayer, Pr. all Conditions Men, O God the creator and preserver of all mankind. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xvii. ii, He hath been the preserver of me and mine. 1806T. S. Surr Winter in Lond. (ed. 3) II. 2 Her open and warm expressions of thanks to the preserver of her life.
b. One who preserves the bodies or stuffed skins of animals, etc.; a taxidermist.
1770T. S. Kuckahn Pres. of Dead Birds in Phil. Trans. LX. 310 One fault very common with most preservers.
c. One who preserves game, fish, etc., for sport.
1884Pall Mall G. 4 Apr. 4/2 It would be sad..if the efforts of preservers should succeed in reducing our already painfully small stock of native mammals by further extirpating the four or five now menaced species.
2. a. A thing that preserves or keeps safe from harm.
1615Latham Falconry (1633) 110 A present and speciall remedie against such inward diseases, and a great preseruer of health and lustinesse. 1750tr. Leonardus' Mirr. Stones 84 Coral is a wonderful preserver. 1844Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. VII. 155/1 Inverted vessels (which the inventor denominates ‘preservers’) fixed at or near the bottom of the boiler or pan. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 580 In the form of bandages, and..with large pieces fitting like a ‘chest preserver’.
b. pl. Spectacles for preserving the sight; ‘preserves’: see preserve n. 1 b.
1797A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl (1813) IV. 53 Miss put on her preservers, and said she was quite a well-grown young woman.
c. = life-preserver 2.
1912Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 636/1 In the panic which is certain to ensue after a wreck even the handling of this preserver would be awkward in the narrow passages and gangways.
Hence preˈserveress, a female preserver. Chiefly fig. and poetic.
1595Daniel Civ. Wars (1609) i. vi, And Memorie, preserv'resse of things done, Come thou, vnfold the woundes, the wracke, the waste. 1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 228 The true preserueresse of pure truths. 1863Baring-Gould Iceland iii. 62 The ancient Finns made..Antermen, ‘the steam of the bath’, the preserveress of vigour. |