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Alive :: Alive (a.) Sprightly; lively; brisk.

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..

Animate :: Animate (a.) Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.

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..

Quick :: Quick (superl.) Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.

Caliver :: Caliver (n.) An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore..

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..

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..

Alive :: Alive (a.) In a state of action; in force or operation; unextinguished; unexpired; existent; as, to keep the fire alive; to keep the affections alive..

Vivisection :: Vivisection (n.) The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations..

Cauf :: Cauf (n.) A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.

Alive :: Alive (a.) Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged.

Lives :: Lives (a. & adv.) Alive; living; with life.

Semivif :: Semivif (a.) Only half alive.

Vivisect :: Vivisect (v. t.) To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive.

Livingness :: Livingness (n.) The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.

Enquicken :: Enquicken (v. t.) To quicken; to make alive.

Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army..

Animation :: Animation (n.) The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive..

Curtesy :: Curtesy (n.) the life estate which a husband has in the lands of his deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands..

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