[Obs.] See Alive. Chaucer.
Lived
(Lived) a. Having life; — used only in composition; as, long-lived; short- lived.
Live-forever
(Live"-for*ev`er) n. (Bot.) A plant (Sedum Telephium) with fleshy leaves, which has extreme
powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.
Livelihed
(Live"li*hed) n. See Livelihood. [Obs.]
Livelihood
(Live"li*hood) n. [OE. livelode, liflode, prop., course of life, life's support, maintenance, fr.
AS. lif life + lad road, way, maintenance. Confused with livelihood liveliness. See Life, and Lode.]
Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; support of life; maintenance.
The opportunities of gaining an honest livelihood.
Addison.
It is their profession and livelihood to get their living by practices for which they deserve to forfeit their
lives.
South. Livelihood
(Live"li*hood), n. [Lively + - hood.] Liveliness; appearance of life. [Obs.] Shak.
Livelily
(Live"li*ly), adv. In a lively manner. [Obs.] Lamb.
Liveliness
(Live"li*ness), n. [From Lively.]
1. The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness
of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age. B. Jonson.
2. An appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait.
3. Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors.
Syn. — Sprightliness; gayety; animation; vivacity; smartness; briskness; activity. — Liveliness, Gayety,
Animation, Vivacity. Liveliness is an habitual feeling of life and interest; gayety refers more to a temporary
excitement of the animal spirits; animation implies a warmth of emotion and a corresponding vividness
of expressing it, awakened by the presence of something which strongly affects the mind; vivacity is a
feeling between liveliness and animation, having the permanency of the one, and, to some extent, the
warmth of the other. Liveliness of imagination; gayety of heart; animation of countenance; vivacity of
gesture or conversation.
Livelode
(Live"lode`) n. [See 1st Livelihood.] Course of life; means of support; livelihood. [Obs.]
Livelong
(Live"long`) a. [For lifelong. Cf. Lifelong.]
1. Whole; entire; long in passing; — used of time, as day or night, in adverbial phrases, and usually with a
sense of tediousness.
The obscure bird
Clamored the livelong night.
Shak.
How could she sit the livelong day,
Yet never ask us once to play?
Swift. 2. Lasting; durable. [Obs.]
Thou hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Milton. Lively
(Live"ly) a. [Compar. Livelier ; superl. Liveliest.] [For lifely. Cf. Lifelike.]
