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, to mend one's manners or pace. The best service they could do the state was to mend the lives of the persons who composed it. Sir W. Temple.

A brief calendar of the lives of the saints for each day in the year, or a simple remembrance of those whose lives are not written.

A person of strict piety; one who lives in the exact observance of religious duties; -- sometimes so called in contempt or ridicule.

A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard. As some lone miser, visiting his store, Bends at his treasure, counts, recounts it o'er. Goldsmith.

That which is a month old, or which lives for a month. [R.] Wordsworth.

One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules; one of correct deportment and dealings with his fellow-creatures; -- sometimes used in contradistinction to one whose life is controlled by religious motives. The love (in the moralist of virtue, but in the Christian) of God himself. Ham…

her literally or figuratively; to make subject to a claim or obligation. Mortgaging their lives to covetise. Spenser. I myself an mortgaged to thy will. Shak.

An inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among mountains.

all countries. The American white-footed, or deer, mouse (Hesperomys leucopus) sometimes lives in houses. See Dormouse, Meadow mouse, under Meadow, and Harvest mouse, under Harvest.

se has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives. Addison.

A larva or grub that lives in muck or manure; -- applied to the larvæ of the tumbledung and allied beetles.

Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters, or strawberries.

A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off. Chaucer. Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors. Shak.

adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.

A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. They holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration. Wordsworth.

A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked; as, olives of beef or veal.

versal presence; ubiquity. His omnipresence fills Land, sea, and air, and every kind that lives. Milton.

One who holds land in a parish, but lives elsewhere. [Eng.]

One who outlives. [R.]

ani) are the best known. -- Oyster crab (Zoöl.) a small crab (Pinnotheres ostreum) which lives as a commensal in the gill cavity of the oyster. -- Oyster dredge, a rake or small dragnet of bringing up oyster from the bottom of the sea. -- Oyster fish. (Zoöl.) (a) The tautog. (b) The toadfish. -- Oyster plant. (Bot.…