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action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire. Lo! of themselves th' enlivened chessmen move. Cowley.

One who, or that which, enlivens, animates, or invigorates.

One who gratifies his appetites without stint; one given to indulgence in eating and drinking.

A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made. W. E. Aytoun.

Of an excitable or irritable temperament; irascible. Milton.

Leading a wicked life. [Obs.]

To animate. [R.] B. Jonson.

White-livered; cowardly.

ving constitutional peculiarities which make long life probable; lasting long; as, a long-lived tree; they are a longlived family; long-lived prejudices.

one bred in a low and vulgar condition of life; mean dishonorable; contemptible; as, low-lived dishonesty.

White-livered; cowardly; timorous.

To live amiss.

A neglect or failure of delivery; omission of delivery.

The fruit of the olive. It has been much improved by cultivation, and is used for making pickles. Olive oil is pressed from its flesh.

Decorated or furnished with olive trees. [R.] T. Warton.

An olive-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of copper; olive ore.

An olive grove. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An adherent of Oliver Cromwell. Macaulay.

The wood of the olive.

To live beyond, or longer than; to survive. They live too long who happiness outlive. Dryden.