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Eating, or subsisting on, filth.

Subsisting on blood.

Subsisting upon blood; -- said of certain blood-sucking bats and other animals. See Vampire.

26. Spirit is a substance wherein thinking, knowing, doubting, and a power of moving, do subsist. Locke.

Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

ut naming their successors, vests an absolute property in them so lond as the corporation subsists. Blackstone.

ns or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like; subsistence; maintenance; assistance; reënforcement; as, he gave his family a good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery. Points of support (Arch.), the horizontal area of the…

To maintain; to keep alive; to support; to subsist; to nourish; as, provisions to sustain an army.

The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.

osition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects. The taille, as it still subsists in France, may serve as an example of those ancient tallages. It was a tax upon the profits of the farmer, which they estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm. A. Smith.

The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the t…

To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship. I must go victual Orleans forthwith. Shak.