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1,368 words match “LIVE”

OUTLIVER n.
One who outlives. [R.]
OVERLIVE v. 2 definitions
To outlive. Sir P. Sidney. The culture of Northumbria overlived the term of its political supermacy. Earle.
OVERLIVER n.
A survivor. Bacon.
PIGEON-LIVERED a.
Pigeon-hearted.
POLIVE n.
A pulley. [Obs.] Chaucer.
PROCLIVE a.
Having a tendency by nature; prone; proclivous. [R.] Mrs. Browning.
QUEEN OLIVE n.
Properly, a kind of superior olive grown in the region of Seville, Spain. It is large size and oblong shape with a small but long pit; it is cured when green, keeps well, and has a delicate flavor. Loosely, any olive of similar character.
REDELIVER v. 3 definitions
To deliver or give back; to return. Ay
REDELIVERANCE n.
A second deliverance.
REDELIVERY n. 2 definitions
Act of delivering back.
RELIVE v. 2 definitions
To live again; to revive.
SHORT-LIVED a.
Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion.
SLIVE v. 2 definitions
To sneak. [Prov. Eng.]
SLIVER v. 4 definitions
long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood. Shak. They 'll sliver thee like a turnip. Sir W. Scott.
UNLIVE v.
To [R.] Glanvill.
UNLIVED a.
Bereft or deprived of life. [Obs.] Shak.
WHITE-LIVERED a.
; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly. They must not be milksops, nor white-livered knights. Latimer.
ABED adv.
To childbed (in the phrase "brought abed," that is, delivered of a child). Shak.
ABELIAN; ABELITE; ABELONIAN n.
ct in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.
ABORTIFACIENT a.
A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery.
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