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in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

An early form of hand gun, variety of the arquebus; originally a gun having a regular size of bore. [Obs.] Shak.

; to aver; to maintain as true; -- opposed to deny. Jesus, . . . whom Paul affirmed to be alive. Acts xxv. 19.

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

The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive. The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of animation. Landor.

esign of inspiring belief or confidence. I dare assure thee that no enemy Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus. Shak.

a fire, to cover the coals or embers with ashes or cinders, thus keeping the fire low but alive.

The top, or uppermost part; the chief. Thou art the cap of all the fools alive. Shak.

A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water. Philips.

ke to dry up or wither. [Obs.] If thou speak'st false, Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, Till famine cling thee. Shak.

best gifts. 1. Cor. xxii. 31. If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive. Shak.

s deceased wife, which by the common law takes effect where he has had issue by her, born alive, and capable of inheriting the lands. Mozley & W.

Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man. "The queen, my lord, is dead." Shak. The crew, all except himself, were dead of hunger. Arbuthnot. Seek him with cand…

The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body. And you may carve a shrine about my dust. Tennyson.

To quicken; to make alive. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

tively with for. Seek the Lord . . . Seek his face evermore. Ps. cv. 4. And, behold, I am alive for evermore. Rev. i. 18. Which flow from the presence of God for evermore. Tillotson. I evermore did love you, Hermia. Shak.

is called this man's or that man's "folly," and name of the foolish builder is thus kept alive for long after years. Trench.

e front; to a prominent position; in plain sight; in readiness for use. (b) In existence; alive; not worn out, lost, or spent, as money, etc. [Irish] "While I am to the fore." W. Collins. "How many captains in the regiment had two thousand pounds to the fore" Thackeray.

or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus. May that ground gape and swallow me alive! Shak.

ll to the ground they grow. Shak. Growing cell, or Growing slide, a device for preserving alive a minute object in water continually renewed, in a manner to permit its growth to be watched under the microscope. -- Grown over, covered with a growth. -- To grow out of, to issue from, as plants from the soil, or as a br…