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Alive; living; with life. [Obs.] " Any lives creature." Chaucer.

who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.

meeting; to adjourn a debate. It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. 'Tis a needful fitness That we adjourn this court till further day. Shak.

upply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish.

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

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

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.

Over against; as, he lives anent the church.

ll apprehensive of evils as a distance. Tillotson. Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives. Gladstone.

s, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak.

. Many persons think themselves fairly assoiled, because they are . . . not of scandalous lives. Jer. Taylor.

To remove. [Obs.] About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare. Holland.

Johnson. -- Belly timber, food. [Ludicrous] Prior. -- Belly worm, a worm that breeds or lives in the belly (stomach or intestines). Johnson.

nt inclination. Strong love is a bias upon the thoughts. South. Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to all their actions. Locke.

One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.

Mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable. The Egyptians . . . made their lives bitter with hard bondage. Ex. i. 14. Bitter apple, Bitter cucumber, Bitter gourd. (Bot.) See Colocynth. -- Bitter cress (Bot.), a plant of the genus Cardamine, esp. C. amara. -- Bitter earth (Min.), tale earth; calcined magnesia. --…

ance of a future blessedness. Tillotson. Single blessedness, the unmarried state. "Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness." Shak.

One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish. Halliwell.

The Jesuit editors of the "Acta Sanctorum", or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work.