4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Live \Live\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lived}; p. pr & vb n.
{Living}.] [OE. liven, livien, AS libban, lifian; akin to
OS libbian D. leven, G. leben, OHG. leb[=e]n, Dan. leve,
Sw lefva Icel. lifa to live, to be left to remain, Goth.
liban to live; akin to E. leave to forsake, and life, Gr
liparei^n to persist, liparo`s oily, shining, sleek, li`pos
fat, lard, Skr. lip to anoint, smear; -- the first sense
prob. was to cleave to stick to hence to remain, stay;
and hence to live.]
1. To be alive; to have life; to have as an animal or a
plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to
be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of
existence; as animals and plants that live to a great age
are long in reaching maturity.
Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I
will . . . lay sinews upon you and will bring up
flesh upon you and cover you with skin, and put
breath in you and ye shall live. --Ezek.
xxxvii 5, 6.
2. To pass one's time; to pass life or time in a certain
manner, as to habits, conduct, or circumstances; as to
live in ease or affluence; to live happily or usefully.
O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a
man that liveth at rest in his possessions!
--Ecclus. xli.
1.
3. To make one's abiding place or home; to abide; to dwell;
to reside.
Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years.
--Gen. xlvii.
28.
4. To be or continue in existence; to exist; to remain; to be
permanent; to last -- said of inanimate objects, ideas,
etc
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We
write in water. --Shak.
5. To enjoy or make the most of life; to be in a state of
happiness.
What greater curse could envious fortune give Than
just to die when I began to live? --Dryden.
6. To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; -- with
on as horses live on grass and grain.
7. To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished,
and actuated by divine influence or faith.
The just shall live by faith. --Gal. iii.
ll
8. To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to
subsist; -- with on or by as to live on spoils.
Those who live by labor. --Sir W.
Temple.
9. To outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat,
etc.; as no ship could live in such a storm.
A strong mast that lived upon the sea. --Shak.
{To live out}, to be at service; to live away from home as a
servant. [U. S.]
{To live with}.
a To dwell or to be a lodger with
b To cohabit with to have intercourse with as male
with female.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Living \Liv"ing\, n.
1. The state of one who or that which lives; lives; life;
existence. ``Health and living.'' --Shak.
2. Manner of life; as riotous living; penurious living;
earnest living. `` A vicious living.'' --Chaucer.
3. Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate.
She can spin for her living. --Shak.
He divided unto them his living. --Luke xv 12.
4. Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living
comfortably.
There is no living without trusting somebody or
other in some cases. --L' Estrange.
5. The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge
which a minister receives. [Eng.]
He could not get a deanery, a prebend, or even a
living --Macaulay.
{Livng room}, the room most used by the family.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Laving \Lav"ing\, a. [From {Live}, v. i.]
1. Being alive; having life; as a living creature.
2. Active; lively; vigorous; -- said esp. of states of the
mind, and sometimes of abstract things as a living
faith; a living principle. `` Living hope. '' --Wyclif.
3. Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as
a living spring; -- opposed to {stagnant}.
4. Producing life, action animation, or vigor; quickening.
``Living light.'' --Shak.
5. Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live.
Then on the living coals wine they pour. --Dryden.
{Living force}. See {Vis viva}, under {Vis}.
{Living gale} (Naut.), a heavy gale.
{Living} {rock or stone}, rock in its native or original
state or location; rock not quarried. `` I now found
myself on a rude and narrow stairway, the steps of which
were cut out of the living rock.'' --Moore.
{The living}, those who are alive, or one who is alive.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
living
adj 1: pertaining to living persons; "within living memory"
2: true to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother"
3: dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination: "living
quarters"; "tree-living animals"
4: (intensifier) "she is a living doll"; "scared the living
daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him"
5: still in existence; "the Wollemi pine found in Australia is
a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been
long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"; "the
only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania" [syn:
{surviving}]
6: still in active use "a living language"
7: full of life and interest; "made history a living subject"
[syn: {living(a)}]
8: (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place
not mined or quarried; "carved into the living stone";
[syn: {living(a)}]
9: having life; "a live canary"; "hit a live nerve"; "famous
living painters"; "living tissue"; "living plants and
animals" [syn: {live}]
n 1: the experience of living; the course of human events and
activities; "he could no longer cope with the
complexities of life" [syn: {life}]
2: people who are still living; "save your pity for the living"
[ant: {dead}]
3: the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while
there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical
and physical processes" [syn: {animation}, {life}, {aliveness}]
4: the financial means whereby one lives; "each child was
expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state
for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood"
[syn: {support}, {keep}, {livelihood}, {bread and butter},
{sustenance}]
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