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Li*vid"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. lividité.] The state or quality of being livid.

Liv"id*ness (lv"d*ns), n. Lividity. Walpole.

Liv"ing (lv"ng), 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.

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.

Liv"ing*ly, adv. In a living state. Sir T. Browne.

Liv"ing*ness, n. The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.

Li*vo"ni*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to Livonia, a district of Russia near the Baltic Sea.