Definition of living

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Living (n.) Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living..

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Carcass :: Carcass (n.) The living body; -- now commonly used in contempt or ridicule.
Graft :: Graft (n.) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
Kelpfish :: Kelpfish (n.) A small California food fish (Heterostichus rostratus), living among kelp. The name is also applied to species of the genus Platyglossus..
Corpus :: Corpus (n.) A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing..
Communistic :: Communistic (a.) Living or having their nests in common, as certain birds..
Survival :: Survival (n.) A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving..
Scrub :: Scrub (v. i.) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living..
Larviparous :: Larviparous (a.) Depositing living larvae, instead of eggs; -- said of certain insects..
Pluralism :: Pluralism (n.) The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time.
Crania :: Crania (n.) A genus of living Brachiopoda; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull.
Irritability :: Irritability (n.) A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways, -- as that quality in plants by which they exhibit motion under suitable stimulation; esp., the property which living muscle processes, of responding either to a direct stimulus of its substance, or to the stimulating influence of its nerve fibers, the response being indicated by a change of form, or contracti
Unorganized :: Unorganized (a.) Not organized; being without organic structure; specifically (Biol.), not having the different tissues and organs characteristic of living organisms, nor the power of growth and development; as, the unorganized ferments. See the Note under Ferment, n., 1..
Pensioner :: Pensioner (n.) In the university of Cambridge, England, one who pays for his living in commons; -- corresponding to commoner at Oxford..
Magnificent :: Magnificent (a.) Doing grand things; admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence..
Recluse :: Recluse (a.) Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life..
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..
Catadromous :: Catadromous (a.) Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; -- opposed to anadromous, and said of the eel..
Metabolism :: Metabolism (n.) The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism)..
Habit :: Habit (n.) The general appearance and manner of life of a living organism.
Eremitical :: Eremitical (a.) Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude.
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