Definition of alive

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Alive (a.) Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive..

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Viable :: Viable (a.) Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant..
Alive :: Alive (a.) Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged.
Hussite :: Hussite (n.) A follower of John Huss, the Bohemian reformer, who was adjudged a heretic and burnt alive in 1415..
Vivisection :: Vivisection (n.) The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations..
Live :: Live (v. i.) To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity..
Livingness :: Livingness (n.) The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.
Animate :: Animate (a.) Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.
Quick :: Quick (n.) That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge..
Quicken :: Quicken (v. i.) To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb..
Dead :: Dead (a.) Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man..
Caliver :: Caliver (n.) An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore..
Instinct :: Instinct (a.) Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life..
Quick :: Quick (superl.) Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.
Viviparous :: Viviparous (a.) Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; -- opposed to oviparous..
Semivif :: Semivif (a.) Only half alive.
Alive :: Alive (a.) Having susceptibility; easily impressed; having lively feelings, as opposed to apathy; sensitive..
Vivipara :: Vivipara (n. pl.) An artificial division of vertebrates including those that produce their young alive; -- opposed to Ovipara.
Alive :: Alive (a.) Sprightly; lively; brisk.
Lives :: Lives (a. & adv.) Alive; living; with life.
Well :: Well (v. i.) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water for the preservation of fish alive while they are transported to market..
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