Part 6598

<h1>Laving</h1> <Xpage=862>

<hw>Lav"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Live</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Being alive; having life; <as>as, a <ex>living</ex> creature</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Active; lively; vigorous; -- said esp. of states of the mind , and sometimes of abstract things; <as>as, a <ex>living</ex> faith; a <ex>living</ex> principle.</as></def> " <i>Living</i> hope. "

<i>Wyclif.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; <as>as, a <ex>living</ex> spring</as>; -- opposed to <i>stagnant</i>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Producing life, action, animation, or vigor; quickening.</def> " <i>Living</i> light."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live.</def>

<blockquote>Then on the <b>living</b> coals wine they pour. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Living force</col>. <cd>See <cref>Vis viva</cref>, under <er>Vis</er>.</cd> -- <col>Living gale</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>a heavy gale.</cd> <col>Living rock</col> &or; <col>stone</col></mcol>, <cd>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 of the <i>living rock<i>." <i>Moore</i>.</cd> -- <col>The living</col>, <cd>those who are alive, or one who is alive.</cd></cs>

<h1>Living</h1> <Xpage=862>

<hw>Liv"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence.</def> "Health and <i>living</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Manner of life; <as>as, riotous <ex>living</ex>; penurious <ex>living</ex>; earnest <ex>living</ex>.</as></def> " A vicious <i>living</i>."

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate.</def>

<blockquote>She can spin for her <b>living</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He divided unto them his <b>living</b>. <i>Luke xv. 12.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably.</def>

<blockquote>There is no <b>living</b> without trusting somebody or other in some cases. <i>L' Estrange.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark>

<blockquote>He could not get a deanery, a prebend, or even a <b>living</b> <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Livng room</col>, <cd>the room most used by the family.</cd></cs>

<h1>Livingly</h1> <Xpage=862>

<hw>Liv"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a living state.</def>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<h1>Livingness</h1> <Xpage=862>

<hw>Liv"ing*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.</def>