Dwelling; residing; existing; subsisting; having life or the vital functions in operation; not dead.

a. Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as a living spring or fountain; opposed to stagnant.

a. Producing action, animation and vigor; quickening; as a living principle; a living faith.

He or those who are alive; usually with a plural signification; as in the land of the living. The living will lay it to his heart. Ecclesiastes 7:2.

Means of subsistence; estate. He divided to them his living. Luke 15:72. She of her want, did cast in all that she had, even all her living. Mark 12:44.

Power of continuing life. There is no living with a scold. There is no living without trusting some body or other in some cases.

Livelihood. He made a living by his occupation. The woman spins for a living.

The benefice of a clergyman. He lost his living by non- conformity.