Living /(lĭv"ĭng)/

Liv·ing

Living

a.
  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.
  3. Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; -- opposed to stagnant.
  4. Producing life, action, animation, or vigor; quickening.
  5. Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live.
    Then on the living coals wine they pour.

Phrases & Compounds
Living force
See Vis viva, under Vis.
Living gale
a heavy gale.
Living rock
rock in its native or original state or location; rock not quarried.
The living
those who are alive, or one who is alive.

Living

n.
  1. The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence.
  2. Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living.
  3. Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate; as, to make a comfortable living from writing.
    She can spin for her living.
    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