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One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

One who survives or outlives another person, or any time, event, or thing. The survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious sorrow. Shak.

n sparrow (Melospiza Georgiana, or M. palustris), closely resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy places. -- Swamp willow. (Bot.) See Pussy willow, under Pussy.

e; or rather, the whole time for which an estate is granted, as for the term of a life or lives, or for a term of years.

One who lives under a theocratic form of government; one who in civil affairs conforms to divine law.

il. (Zoöl.) See Moloch, 2. -- Thorn hopper (Zoöl.), a tree hopper (Thelia cratægi) which lives on the thorn bush, apple tree, and allied trees.

ofessions are apt to see nothing in revenue but banks, and circulations, and annuities on lives, and tontines, and perpetual rents, and all the small wares of the shop. Burke.

The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country. Always hankering after the diversions of the town. Addison. Stunned with his giddy larum half the town. Pope.

delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives. Milner.

A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence.

h an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify. [R.] Let us type them now in our own lives. Tennyson.

unds our eye, Until the earth seems joined unto the sky. Dryden. But the rest of the dead lives not again until the thousand years were finished. Rev. xx. 5.

estimated value or worth; as, the goods sold for more than their valuation. Since of your lives you set So slight a valuation. Shak.

Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.

statement; to verify an account, a pleading, or the like. To verify our title with their lives. Shak.

old have a virtual transition, without communication of substance. Bacon. Every kind that lives, Fomented by his virtual power, and warmed. Milton.

e; as, to water land; to water flowers. With tears watering the ground. Milton. Men whose lives gilded on like rivers that water the woodlands. Longfellow.

an snake (Ancistrodon piscivorus) allied to the rattlesnake but destitute of a rattle. It lives in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes. Called also water snake, water adder, water viper.

A common North American colubrine snake (Tropidonotus sipedon) which lives chiefly in the water.

a aquatica) which constructs its web beneath the surface of the water on water plants. It lives in a bell-shaped structure of silk, open beneath like a diving bell, and filled with air which the spider carries down in the form of small bubbles attached one at a time to the spinnerets and hind feet. Called also diving s…