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ing; lasting but a short time; -- applied particularly to organs or parts which are short-lived as compared with the life of the individual.

Of great age; aged; longlived. [R.] Bailey.

In a happy manner or state; in happy circumstances; as, he lived happily with his wife.

subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost. All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses. Longfellow.

enists. Hellenistic language, dialect, or idiom, the Greek spoken or used by the Jews who lived in countries where the Greek language prevailed; the Jewish-Greek dialect or idiom of the Septuagint.

A disciple of Hermogenes, and heretical teacher who lived in Africa near the close of the second century. He ha

, the age when the heroes, or those called the children of the gods, are supposed to have lived. -- Heroic poetry, that which celebrates the deeds of a hero; epic poetry. -- Heroic treatment or remedies (Med.), treatment or remedies of a severe character, suited to a desperate case. -- Heroic verse (Pros.), the vers…

One of the people who lived beyond the North wind, in a land of perpetual sunshine.

Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity. [Obs.] He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites. Clarendon.

He supposed that a vast period interceded between that origination and the age wherein he lived. Sir M. Hale.

To enjoy. [Obs.] See Enjoy. Who might have lived and joyed immortal bliss. Milton.

s, the "Jukes" sisters, whose husbands were sons of a backwoodsman of Dutch descent. They lived in the State of New York, and their history was investigated by R. L. Dugdale as an example of the inheritance of criminal and immoral tendencies, disease, and pauperism. Sixty per cent of those traced showed, degeneracy, an…

part of a castle, was so called because the lord and his domestic circle kept, abode, or lived there. M. A. Lower.

Any kind of boor or low-lived person. [Obs.] Blount.

learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit. Johnson.

Such as can be lived.

To make one's abiding place or home; to abide; to dwell; to reside. Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. Gen. xlvii. 28.

Long-lived. Dunglison.

es. Shak. Seeing a great many in rich gowns. Addison. It will be concluded by manythat he lived like an honest man. Fielding.

The people who lived in the Middle Ages. Ruskin.