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Webster's English Dictionary

living

a. [From Live, v. i.]1. Being alive; having life; as, a living creature. Opposed to dead. ()

2. Active; lively; vigorous; -- said esp. of states of the mind, and sometimes of abstract things; as, a living faith; a living principle. (Wyclif.)

3. Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; -- opposed to stagnant. ()

4. Producing life, action, animation, or vigor; quickening. (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 Living 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. ()

n. 1. The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence. (Shak.)

2. Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living. (Chaucer.)

3. Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate; as, to make a comfortable living from writing. ()

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. ()

He could not get a deanery, a prebend, or even a living (Macaulay.)