What greater curse could envious fortune give Than just to die when
I began to live?
Dryden.
6. To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; -- with on; as,
horses live on grass and grain.
7. To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and
actuated by divine influence or faith.
The just shall live by faith.
Gal. iii. ll.
8. To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to subsist; --
with on or by; as, to live on spoils.
Those who live by labor.
Sir W. Temple.
9. To outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat, etc.; as, no
ship could live in such a storm.
A strong mast that lived upon the sea.
Shak.
To live out, to be at service; to live away from home as a servant. [U.
S.] -- To live with. (a) To dwell or to be a lodger with. (b) To
cohabit with; to have intercourse with, as male with female.
Live (?), v. t. 1. To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to
continue in, constantly or habitually; as, to live an idle or a useful
life.