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tivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

Brisk; joyously active; lively. 'T were well if we were a little more alacrious. Hammond.

ppointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.] [Eng.]

Brisk, lively. -- n.

inct party. The alloments of God and nature. L'Estrange. A vineyard and an allotment for olives and herbs. Broome.

Great; extreme; terrible. [Slang] Poor Aroar can not live, and can not die, -- so that he is in an almighty fix. De Quincey. The Almighty, the omnipotent God. Rev. i. 8.

themselves; without any thing more or any one else; without a sharer; only. Man shall not live by bread alone. Luke iv. 4. The citizens alone should be at the expense. Franklin.

Always. [Archaic or Poetic] I would not live alway. Job vii. 16.

ndian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

Circuit or compass. His great parts did not live within a small ambit. Milward.

understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories. To live on terms of amity with vice. Cowper.

One who lives near a river. [Obs.] Bailey.

The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.

Having the ability to live both on land and in water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants.

f any of the words, but from its admitting of a double construction; e. g., "The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose." Whately.

A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.

Anaërobic bacteria. They are called facultative anaërobia when able to live either in the presence or absence of free oxygen; obligate, or obligatory, anaërobia when they thrive only in its absence.

Those who lived in former ages, as opposed to the moderns.

Over against; as, he lives anent the church.

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.