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The science which treats of the complex relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally. St. George Mivart.

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  • LIVINGLY
    In a living state. Sir T. Browne.
  • LIVELY
    1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
  • LIVRAISON
    A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
  • LIVINGNESS
    The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.
  • LIVED
    Having life; -- used only in composition; as, long-lived; short-lived.
  • RELATIONSHIP
    The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
  • LIVE
    liven, livien, AS. libban, lifian; akin to OS. libbian, D. leven, G. leben, OHG. lebn, Dan. leve, Sw. lefva, Icel. lifa to live, to be left, to remain, Goth. liban to live; akin to E. leave to forsake, and life, Gr. lip to anoint, smear; -- the
  • OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
    Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
  • LIVERWORT
    1. A ranunculaceous plant with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups. 2. A flowerless plant , having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond. Note: From this plant many others of the same
  • LIVING PICTURE
    A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
  • COMPLEXIONALLY
    Constitutionally. Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious. Burke.
  • LIVERY
    gift of clothes made by the master to his servants, prop., a thing delivered, fr. livrer to deliver, L. liberare to set free, in LL., to The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements. The writ by which possession is obtained. Note: It
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • LIVER-GROWN
    Having an enlarged liver. Dunglison.
  • LIVE-FOREVER
    A plant with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.
  • COMPLEXUS
    A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.
  • GEORGE NOBLE
    A gold noble of the time of Henry VIII. See Noble, n.
  • LIVERING
    A kind of pudding or sausage made of liver or pork. Chapman.
  • LIVERIED
    Wearing a livery. See Livery, 3. The liveried servants wait. Parnell.
  • LIVERED
    Having a liver; used in composition; as, white-livered.
  • DELIVERANCE
    Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
  • NOTOTHERIUM
    An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
  • ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
    Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
  • REDELIVER
    1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.
  • SMOTHER
    Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
  • OLIVARY
    Like an olive. Olivary body , an oval prominence on each side of the medulla oblongata; -- called also olive.
  • ISOTHEROMBROSE
    A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
  • OLIVINE
    A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks.
  • COD LIVER
    The liver of the common cod and allied species. Cod-liver oil, an oil obtained fron the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • OLIVERIAN
    An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay.
  • UNMOTHERED
    Deprived of a mother; motherless.

 

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