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14 words match “VIVES”

VIVES n.
A disease of brute animals, especially of horses, seated in the glands under the ear, where a tumor is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.
APPARENT a.
time. See Time. -- Heir apparent (Law), one whose to an estate is indefeasible if he survives the ancestor; -- in distinction from presumptive heir. See Presumptive.
DISDAINISHLY adv.
Disdainfully. [Obs.] Vives.
FIVES n.
A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives. Shak.
INSURANCE n.
aken dies before a certain specified time the insurance becomes due at once, and if he survives, it becomes due at the time specified. -- Fire insurance. See under Fire. -- Insurance broker, a broker or agent who effects insurance. -- Insurance company, a company or corporation whose business it is to insure against…
REVIVE v.
spension. Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts. Shak. Your coming, friends, revives me. Milton.
REVIVER n.
One who, or that which, revives.
SALVAGE n.
That part of the property that survives the peril and is saved. Kent. Abbot.
SHAMANISM n.
ed among all the Ural- Altaic peoples (Tungusic, Mongol, and Turkish), and which still survives in various parts of Northern Asia. The Shaman, or wizard priest, deals with good as well as with evil spirits, especially the good spirits of ancestors. Encyc. Brit.
STOP n.
ance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated. The organ sound a time survives the stop. Daniel.
SURVIVE v.
To remain alive; to continue to live. Thy pleasure, Which, when no other enemy survives, Still conquers all the conquerors. Sir J. Denham. Alike are life and death, When life in death survives. Longfellow.
SURVIVER n.
One who survives; a survivor.
SURVIVOR n.
One who survives or outlives another person, or any time, event, or thing. The survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious sorrow. Shak.
WALDENSES n.
the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles.