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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Living

Living (living)
a.(l***ibreve]v"***ibreve]ng)
Liv"ing
[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.


Living

Living (living)
n.
Liv"ing
  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.














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