Definition of living

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Living (n.) Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate.

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Needy :: Needy (superl.) Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; indigent; necessitous.
Ragpicker :: Ragpicker (n.) One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets.
Slough :: Slough (v. i.) To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly..
Urban :: Urban (a.) Belonging to, or suiting, those living in a city; cultivated; polite; urbane; as, urban manners..
Fleshpot :: Fleshpot (n.) plenty; high living.
Backwoodsman :: Backwoodsman (n.) A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States..
Archeus :: Archeus (n.) The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers.
Generation :: Generation (n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age..
Diet :: Diet (n.) Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
Animism :: Animism (n.) The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter..
Eremitism :: Eremitism (n.) The state of a hermit; a living in seclusion from social life.
Living :: Living (n.) The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence..
Germicide :: Germicide (a.) Destructive to germs; -- applied to any agent which has a destructive action upon living germs, particularly bacteria, or bacterial germs, which are considered the cause of many infectious diseases..
Statue :: Statue (n.) The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion..
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..
Booly :: Booly (n.) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers..
Fresh-water :: Fresh-water (a.) Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels..
Hyracoidea :: Hyracoidea (n. pl.) An order of small hoofed mammals, comprising the single living genus Hyrax..
Floatiersman :: Floatiersman (n.) A man living on the frontier.
Order :: Order (n.) A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order..
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