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unds our eye, Until the earth seems joined unto the sky. Dryden. But the rest of the dead lives not again until the thousand years were finished. Rev. xx. 5.

up to the chin in water; to come up with one's companions; to come up with the enemy; to live up to engagements. As a boar was whetting his teeth, up comes a fox to him. L'Estrange.

In an upcountry direction; as, to live upcountry. [Colloq.]

e other animals. It is also present in small quantity in blood, serous fluids, lymph, the liver, etc.

a dependent husband. "Uxorious magistrates." Milton. How wouldst thou insult, When I must live uxorious to thy will In perfect thraldom! Milton. -- Uxo*o"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Ux*o"ri*ous*ness, n.

, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be. Gen. iv. 12.

grant courses took. Prior. While leading this vagrant and miserable life, Johnson fell in live. Macaulay.

a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health. Valetudinarians must live where they can command and scold. Swift.

estimated value or worth; as, the goods sold for more than their valuation. Since of your lives you set So slight a valuation. Shak.

Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.

A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.

cted variously. Divided into Algæ, which contain chlorophyll or its equivalent, and which live upon air and water, and Fungi, which contain no chlorophyll, and live on organic matter. (Lichens are now believed to be fungi parasitic on included algæ.}

Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow. Cowper. Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them. Jeffrey.

Lively; active; sprightly; vigorous. [Obs.] Even her body was made airy and vegete. Jer. Taylor.

Vigorous; lively; active; vegete. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

. VenÆ portæ. Etym: [L., literally, vein of the entrance.] (Anat.) The portal vein of the liver. See under Portal.

The stomach. [Obs.] Whether I will or not, while I live, my heart beats, and my ventricle digests what is in it. Sir M. Hale.

statement; to verify an account, a pleading, or the like. To verify our title with their lives. Shak.

Hence, a red color like the pigment; a lively and brilliant red; as, cheeks of vermilion.

Later, the day and the night preceding a feast. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors, And say, "To-morrow is St. Crispian." Shak.