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Not young; advanced far in years or life; having lived till toward the end of the ordinary term of living; as, an old man; an old age; an old horse; an old tree. Let not old age disgrace my high desire. Sir P. Sidney. The melancholy news that we grow old. Young.

At the peril of, or for the safety of. "Hence, on thy life." Dryden.

business; current events. The common ongoings of this our commonplace world, and everyday life. Prof. Wilson.

Aloft; above ground. [Obs.] She kept her father's life onloft. Chaucer.

n, the law is open and there are deputies. Acts xix. 33. The service that I truly did his life, Hath left me open to all injuries. Shak.

Education late in life. [R.] Hales.

Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical. "A life blissful and ordinate." Chaucer. Ordinate figure (Math.), a figure whose sides and angles are equal; a regular figure.

od. Jer. Taylor. Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the happiness and misery of life respectively. Norris.

apable of performing some special action (termed its function), which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs of plants.

d plants; exhibiting characters peculiar to living organisms; as, organic bodies, organic life, organic remains. Cf. Inorganic.

or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual.

pecif. (Biol.), an arrangement of parts for the performance of the functions necessary to life. The cell may be regarded as the most simple, the most common, and the earliest form of organization. McKendrick.

with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle. These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized could never produce. Ray.

To breathe forth. "Outbreathed life." Spenser.

e literature, all genuine poetry, is the direct outcome, the condensed essence, of actual life and thougth. J. C. Shairp.

. "The outset of a political journey." Burke. Giving a proper direction to this outset of life. J. Hawes.

live too long, too luxuriously, or too actively. Milton. "Overlived in this close London life." Mrs. Browning.

To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot. [Obs.] He lost life . . . upon a nice point subtilely devised and packed by his enemies. Fuller.

The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life.

Of or pertaining to, or designating, the older division of geological time during which life is known to have existed, including the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous ages, and also to the life or rocks of those ages. See Chart of Geology.