Living — Defs

01 a. Being alive; having life; as, a living creature. Opposed to dead.

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.
“Then on the living coals wine they pour.” — Dryden.

Phrases & compounds

Living force — See Vis viva, under Vis.

Living gale — a heavy gale.

Living rock — rock in its native or original state or location; rock not quarried.

The living — those who are alive, or one who is alive.

02 n. The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence.

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.
“She can spin for her living.” — Shak.

“He divided unto them his living.” — Luke xv. 12.
4.
Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably.
“There is no living without trusting somebody or other in some cases.” — L' Estrange.
5.
The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives.[Eng.]
“He could not get a deanery, a prebend, or even a living” — Macaulay.