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. |
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. |
| 4. | Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably. |
| 5. | The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives. |