n. The giving of alms. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. prenom. directed or moving inward or toward a center; as, arriving trains.
Syn. -- inbound, inward. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. living in a manner above moral reproach; especially, abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse and excessive drunkenness.
Syn. -- chaste. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ L. divinatio, fr. divinare, divinatum, to foresee, foretell, fr. divinus: cf. F. divination. See Divine. ] 1. The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means. [ 1913 Webster ]

There shall not be found among you any one that . . . useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter. Deut. xviii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Among the ancient heathen philosophers natural divination was supposed to be effected by a divine afflatus; artificial divination by certain rites, omens, or appearances, as the flight of birds, entrails of animals, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Birds which do give a happy divination of things to come. Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. See Divination. ] One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner. [ R. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. divinatoire. ] Professing, or relating to, divination. “A natural divinatory instinct.” Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Diviner superl. Divinest. ] [ F. divin, L. divinus divine, divinely inspired, fr. divus, dius, belonging to a deity; akin to Gr. &unr_;, and L. deus, God. See Deity. ] 1. Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will. “The immensity of the divine nature.” Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Proceeding from God; as, divine judgments. “Divine protection.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Appropriated to God, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods. “The divine Apollo said.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir J. Davies. “The divine Desdemona.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A divine sentence is in the lips of the king. Prov. xvi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

But not to one in this benighted age
Is that diviner inspiration given. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Presageful; foreboding; prescient. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill,
Misgave him. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Relating to divinity or theology. [ 1913 Webster ]

Church history and other divine learning. South.

Syn. -- Supernatural; superhuman; godlike; heavenly; celestial; pious; holy; sacred; preëminent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. divinus a soothsayer, LL., a theologian. See Divine, a. ] 1. One skilled in divinity; a theologian. “Poets were the first divines.” Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman. [ 1913 Webster ]

The first divines of New England were surpassed by none in extensive erudition. J. Woodbridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Divined p. pr. & vb. n. Divining. ] [ L. divinare: cf. F. deviner. See Divination. ] 1. To foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture. [ 1913 Webster ]

A sagacity which divined the evil designs. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To foretell; to predict; to presage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Darest thou . . . divine his downfall? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To render divine; to deify. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Living on earth like angel new divined. Spenser.

Syn. -- To foretell; predict; presage; prophesy; prognosticate; forebode; guess; conjecture; surmise. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications. [ 1913 Webster ]

The prophets thereof divine for money. Micah iii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have or feel a presage or foreboding. [ 1913 Webster ]

Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

Most divinely fair. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. By the agency or influence of God. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divinely set apart . . . to be a preacher of righteousness. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Divination. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. [ 1913 Webster ]

The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who divines. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That dives or is used or diving. [ 1913 Webster ]

Diving beetle (Zool.), any beetle of the family Dytiscidæ, which habitually lives under water; -- called also water tiger. --
Diving bell, a hollow inverted vessel, sometimes bell-shaped, in which men may descend and work under water, respiration being sustained by the compressed air at the top, by fresh air pumped in through a tube from above. --
Diving dress. See Submarine armor, under Submarine. --
Diving stone, a kind of jasper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. divinus divine + -fy. ] To render divine; to deify. [ Obs. ] “Blessed and divinified soul.” Parth. Sacra (1633). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That divines; for divining. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divining rod, a rod, commonly of witch hazel, with forked branches, used by those who claim to be able to discover water or metals under ground by sensing them through such a rod. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a divining manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A diviner. [ Obs. ] “ I am no divinistre.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Divinities [ F. divinité, L. divinitas. See Divine, a. ] 1. The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead. [ 1913 Webster ]

When he attributes divinity to other things than God, it is only a divinity by way of participation. Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The Deity; the Supreme Being; God. [ 1913 Webster ]

This the divinity that within us. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A pretended deity of pagans; a false god. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beastly divinities, and droves of gods. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man. [ 1913 Webster ]

God . . . employing these subservient divinities. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Something divine or superhuman; supernatural power or virtue; something which inspires awe. [ 1913 Webster ]

They say there is divinity in odd numbers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

There's such divinity doth hedge a king. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The science of divine things; the science which treats of God, his laws and moral government, and the way of salvation; theology. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divinity is essentially the first of the professions. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Case divinity, casuistry. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bookbinding) Calf stained dark brown and worked without gilding, often used for theological books. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A making divine. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To invest with a divine character; to deify. [ R. ] M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

Man had divinized all those objects of awe. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having great force of impulse; as, a driving wind or storm. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft. [ 1913 Webster ]

Driving axle, the axle of a driving wheel, as in a locomotive. --
Driving box (Locomotive), the journal box of a driving axle. See Illust. of Locomotive. --
Driving note (Mus.), a syncopated note; a tone begun on a weak part of a measure and held through the next accented part, thus anticipating the accent and driving it through. --
Driving spring, a spring fixed upon the box of the driving axle of a locomotive engine to support the weight and deaden shocks. [ Eng. ] Weale. --
Driving wheel (Mach.), a wheel that communicates motion; one of the large wheels of a locomotive to which the connecting rods of the engine are attached; -- called also, simply, driver. See Illust. of Locomotive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of forcing or urging something along; the act of pressing or moving on furiously. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Tendency; drift. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Living always; immoral; eternal; as, the everliving God. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Continual; incessant; unintermitted. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. creating the illusion of seeing reality.
Syn. -- trompe-l'oeil(prenominal). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper.

-- For*giv"ing*ly, adv. -- For*giv"ing*ness, n. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a tendency to be kind and forgiving.
Syn. -- kindness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Unrestrained indulgence of the appetites as a way of life. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Biology) Living independently of other organisms; not parasitic or commensal. eating other organisms is not considered "dependence" in this sense.
Syn. -- nonparasitic, nonsymbiotic. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ See Again, and Give. ] A misgiving. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A gift; a benefaction. [ R. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. “Upon the first giving of the weather.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. --
Giving out, anything uttered or asserted; an outgiving. [ 1913 Webster ]

His givings out were of an infinite distance
From his true meant design. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. in- not + divinity: cf. F. indivinité. ] Lack or absence of divine power or of divinity. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Gael. cil ruddle. ] A pencil of black or red lead; -- called also keelyvine pen. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Enacting laws; legislative. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Giving life or spirit; having power to give life; inspiriting; invigorating; as, life-giving love and praise.
Syn. -- vital, vitalizing. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

returning the life-giving humus to the land. Louis Bromfield. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ From Live, v. i. ] 1. Being alive; having life; as, a living creature. Opposed to dead. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Active; lively; vigorous; -- said esp. of states of the mind, and sometimes of abstract things; as, a living faith; a living principle. “ Living hope. ” Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; -- opposed to stagnant. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Producing life, action, animation, or vigor; quickening. “Living light.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then on the living coals wine they pour. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Living force. See Vis viva, under Vis. --
Living gale (Naut.), a heavy gale. --
Living rock or
Living stone, rock in its native or original state or location; rock not quarried. “ I now found myself on a rude and narrow stairway, the steps of which were cut out of the living rock.” Moore. --
The living, those who are alive, or one who is alive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence. “Health and living.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living. “ A vicious living.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate; as, to make a comfortable living from writing. [ 1913 Webster ]

She can spin for her living. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He divided unto them his living. Luke xv. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no living without trusting somebody or other in some cases. L' Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He could not get a deanery, a prebend, or even a living Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a living state. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A room in a house used by all or most of the family, where the family entertain guests or relax together for leisure activities. It usually contains at least one couch, and does not contain a dining table. [ PJC ]

. A wage or salary that permits a worker to live at least with minimal customary amenities, and above conditions of poverty. [ PJC ]

. A document signed by an individual expressing his/her desire that, in the event of an illness from which there is no reasonable expectation of recovery, aggressive or extraordinary measures to prolong life, such as resuscitation and life-support equipment, should not be used. [ PJC ]

n. Evil premonition; doubt; distrust; a feeling of apprehension; -- used commonly in the plural. “Suspicious and misgivings.” South. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Not endowed with life; same as inanimate. Opposite of living and animate.
Syn. -- inanimate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Chem.) A complex bitter gum, found on the leaves of the olive tree; -- called also olivite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. olivine. ] (Min.) A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks. It is a silicate of magnesium and iron ((Mg, Fe)SiO4). [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]