Word Meanings - LONG-LIVED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a long life; having constitutional peculiarities which make long life probable; lasting long; as, a long-lived tree; they are a longlived family; long-lived prejudices.

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• LIVINGLY
  In a living state. Sir T. Browne.
• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• LIVRAISON
  A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
• LIVINGNESS
  The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.
• LIVED
  Having life; -- used only in composition; as, long-lived; short-lived.
• LIVE
  liven, livien, AS. libban, lifian; akin to OS. libbian, D. leven, G. leben, OHG. lebn, Dan. leve, Sw. lefva, Icel. lifa to live, to be left, to remain, Goth. liban to live; akin to E. leave to forsake, and life, Gr. lip to anoint, smear; -- the
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• LAST
  of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth. Chaucer.
• LASTERY
  A red color. Spenser.
• LASTE
  of Last, to endure. Chaucer.
• CONSTITUTIONALIST
  One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.
• LIVERWORT
  1. A ranunculaceous plant with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups. 2. A flowerless plant , having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond. Note: From this plant many others of the same
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• LIVING PICTURE
  A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• LIVERY
  gift of clothes made by the master to his servants, prop., a thing delivered, fr. livrer to deliver, L. liberare to set free, in LL., to The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements. The writ by which possession is obtained. Note: It
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• LIVER-GROWN
  Having an enlarged liver. Dunglison.
• PROPLASTIC
  Forming a mold.
• DELIVERANCE
  Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
• ODONTOPLAST
  An odontoblast.
• REDELIVER
  1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.
• EVERLASTINGLY
  In an everlasting manner.
• OLIVARY
  Like an olive. Olivary body , an oval prominence on each side of the medulla oblongata; -- called also olive.
• LABIOPLASTY
  A plastic operation for making a new lip, or for replacing a lost tissue of a lip.
• APLASTIC
  Not plastic or easily molded.
• STOMATOPLASTIC
  Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.
• EMPLASTER
  See WISEMAN (more info) plaster or salve, fr. Gr.
• MONOPLAST
  A monoplastic element.
• OLIVINE
  A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks.